Hello!
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 05:18:31PM +0100, Bobby Dr wrote:
Hello list!
I know Maxmind's GeoIP Country database can be used easily with nginx.
But what about their Geo-City database?
The default CSV database stands at > 100MB in size (and will grow even
larger if the two normalized files are merged together). For this
reason, using the CIDR format may not be feasible (due to excessive
memory requirement)
The binary file is much smaller however.
The problem with maxmind's city database afaik is that text
information they provide aren't cidrs, but ip ranges. This is
generaly good for relation databases, but worst case for those who
are able to work with cidrs.
Binary file afaik is radix tree dump with real cidrs, that's why it's
much smaller.
Theoretically it should be possible to collapse ip ranges to
optimal set of cidr's to make this usable with native nginx geo
module, but this isn't really easy task.
Has anybody been able to use the geo-city database with nginx? For
apache MaxMind provides mod_geoip which works on the binary file, making
it very fast.
Does anyone have any solution (like mod_geoip) for nginx? I'm using PECL
geoip for PHP and the one for ruby. But I feel, geo lookup at the server
level would be much faster.
Is there any official/3rd party geo-city module for nginx?
AFAIK, no.
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