Comment by anandchowdhary | Hacker News Reader

Comment by anandchowdhary | Hacker News Reader

OP here. My CI builds started breaking out of nowhere [1] because the public download URL of the Geolite2 database started giving 404s.

I reached upon the GitHub issue opened by MaxMind on the package I was using [2] who recommended that every user should create an account and download the package, so I used Git LFS to manually add the package to the repo for now, until I can come up with a better CI-driven solution, because one of the rules is that you need to update the database as soon as a new one comes out, and stop using the older version within 30 days of update, and you might need to provide this in writing as well.

[1] https://travis-ci.org/staart/api/builds/630988787

[2] https://github.com/runk/node-geolite2/issues/17

[3] https://www.maxmind.com/en/geolite2/eula

I'd like to apologize on behalf of MaxMind for breaking your CI build. Let me assure you as a fellow programmer, I know how frustrating that can be! As you saw we've tried to reach out to the larger open source projects using GeoLite2 in advance, but we've not had time to give as much notice as we would like.

The CCPA was finalized in October, and it contains a number of ambiguities, particularly as it relates to our products. To arrive at our current interpretation, it has taken many weeks of working with privacy lawyers, following discussions in the privacy community, and observing actions other companies have taken. We're sorry for the timing, appreciating the frustration it causes, and wish we could have provided more notice.

With regard to the regular updating of the database automatically, I recommend you take a look at our own tool for automatically downloading the latest database: GeoIP Update https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoipupdate/

Hope that helps.

Mark Fowler MaxMind

Seems like this is the kind of thing you'd want to cache/host locally (as a separate step) so that your builds don't break anytime the MaxMind website is unavailable (for any number of reasons)?

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