On Fri, 16 Dec 2016, Bill Maidment wrote:

> Here's another issue
>
> named now has GeoIP switched on and I get the following errors at start up
> Dec 16 10:20:47 ferdinand2 named[1425]: GeoIP Country (IPv4) (type 1) DB not available
> Dec 16 10:20:47 ferdinand2 named[1425]: GeoIP Country (IPv6) (type 12) DB not available
> Dec 16 10:20:47 ferdinand2 named[1425]: GeoIP City (IPv4) (type 2) DB not available
> Dec 16 10:20:47 ferdinand2 named[1425]: GeoIP City (IPv4) (type 6) DB not available
> Dec 16 10:20:47 ferdinand2 named[1425]: GeoIP City (IPv6) (type 30) DB not available
> Dec 16 10:20:47 ferdinand2 named[1425]: GeoIP City (IPv6) (type 31) DB not available
> Dec 16 10:20:47 ferdinand2 named[1425]: GeoIP Region (type 3) DB not available
> Dec 16 10:20:47 ferdinand2 named[1425]: GeoIP Region (type 7) DB not available
> Dec 16 10:20:47 ferdinand2 named[1425]: GeoIP ISP (type 4) DB not available
> Dec 16 10:20:47 ferdinand2 named[1425]: GeoIP Org (type 5) DB not available
> Dec 16 10:20:47 ferdinand2 named[1425]: GeoIP AS (type 9) DB not available
> Dec 16 10:20:47 ferdinand2 named[1425]: GeoIP Domain (type 11) DB not available
> Dec 16 10:20:47 ferdinand2 named[1425]: GeoIP NetSpeed (type 10) DB not available
>
> Is there a way of switching this off? Or should there be a pile of DBs with the RPM ?

It is annoying that it vomits out those messages. AFAICT, there is no
option to disable it.  The named.conf option to specify the directory
containing the geoip DBs is:
      geoip-directory

There is a thread about it in the bind-users mailing list:
   https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/bind-users/2015-November/thread.html#95971

Presumably, if you want to use GeoIP you need to install the GeoIP and
GeoIP-update packages, and enable the cron job to update the database.

cheers, etc.
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