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MaxMind Geolite2
MaxMind GeoLite2 databases are free IP geolocation databases comparable to, but less accurate than, MaxMind’s GeoIP2 databases. GeoLite2 databases are updated on the first Tuesday of each month.
The GeoLite2 databases are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
The attribution requirement may be met by including the following in all advertising and documentation mentioning features of or use of this database:
This product includes GeoLite2 data created by MaxMind, available from www.maxmind.com.
Country ipset
MaxMind distinguishes between several types of country data. The country
is the country where the IP
address is located. The registered_country
is the country in which the IP is registered.
These two may differ in some cases.
They also include a represented_country
key for some records. This is used when the IP address belongs
to something like a military base. The represented_country
is the country that the base represents.
This can be useful for managing content licensing, among other uses.
In the ipsets generated, an IP subnet is added to all country
, registered_country
and represented_country
(of course only when these differ).
More information here.
Continent ipsets
MaxMind provides the continent each IP subnet is located. Using this information we created the geolite2/continent_*.netset
ipsets.
Global providers
MaxMind provides two flags for each IP subnet.
A1
which stands foris anonymous provider
A2
which stands foris satellite provider
Using this information we created two additional ipsets: geolite2/anonymous.netset
and geolite2/satellite.netset
.