# geoip_server

**Repository Path**: mirrors_mozilla/geoip_server

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: geoip_server
- **Description**: Mozilla: A Stand-alone server for the MaxMind GeoIP lookup data
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: Not specified
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-08-22
- **Last Updated**: 2026-03-21

## Categories & Tags

**Categories**: Uncategorized

**Tags**: None

## README

Stand Alone GeoIP reader.
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Why?
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We're using this on a bunch of production servers. That means that the
associated data file will be updated, but may have some random corruption
that could cause a segfault, which would kill the server.
Since we'd rather not have that happen, we're putting this into it's own
service to protect from any (albeit remote) corruption crashes.

Reliablity means being paranoid.

What's the difference between this and django_geoip?
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As little as possible.

Data:
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Fetch the GeoIP databases from MaxMind:
http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolite

System Requirements:
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You'll need to install the following system libraries using your
preferred local package manager:
(e.g. for Debian, use apt-get)

libevent-dev
libgeoip-dev