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Package now uses DB-IP GeoIP database. If you still want to use MaxMind GeoLite2 database then read PKGBUILD for details. (needs license key from MaxMind)

Those using nftables may try this AUR package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nftables-geoip-db/

See README of the package for details. Thank you.

Package now uses DB-IP GeoIP database. If you still want to use MaxMind GeoLite2 database then read PKGBUILD for details. (needs license key from MaxMind)

Quote from PKGBUILD:

#create a file named geoip.license.key which contains MaxMind License key in following format:
_maxmind_key=XXXX

Where XXXX is your GeoIP license key, which is available for free from Maxmind.

After that you can build the package normally.

Hello!

There is error while building this package: ERROR: Failure while downloading https://download.maxmind.com/app/geoip_download?edition_id=GeoLite2-Country-CSV&suffix=zip&license_key=

When I go to this link I get: Invalid license key

And on link https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/ I read this message: Due to upcoming data privacy regulations, we are making significant changes to how you access free GeoLite2 databases starting December 30, 2019.

As described here https://blog.maxmind.com/2019/12/18/significant-changes-to-accessing-and-using-geolite2-databases/ It is required to sign up for a MaxMind account and create license key to download this file.

Those using nftables may try this AUR package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nftables-geoip-db/

See README of the package for details. Thank you.

This depends on unzip to install as line 8 of /usr/lib/iptables/xtables-addons/xt_geoip_dl calls it.

Well if you want it to be automatic then package is not required!

Just make a script with this 2 commands(rough idea)

sh /usr/lib/iptables/xtables-addons/xt_geoip_dl
perl /usr/lib/iptables/xtables-addons/xt_geoip_build -D "/usr/share/xt_geoip" GeoIP*.csv

This works really well, thank you. Would you be interested in incorporating a systemd timer to run the perl script to update the database the first Tuesday of the month? That way, a manual rebuild of the package would not be necessary to update the database.