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Blocked IP Location not showing anymore

Open pnuts007 opened this issue 7 years ago • 4 comments

When clicking on blocked IP address normally the location coordinates were shown. Now it only shows a single line :

'No information available for that IP address'. No changes were made, newest version installed.

pnuts007 avatar Jul 15 '18 09:07 pnuts007

bfstop is using the freegeoip service (https://freegeoip.net/). Apparently this service has now been shut down. I will try to find other similar services I can use and see if I can include a lookup to them in the next version!

codeling avatar Jul 15 '18 14:07 codeling

Apparently the API has been discontinued as of July 1st (https://github.com/apilayer/freegeoip/). As a future-proof solution to this, I will implement a few lookup services:

  • the direct replacement of freegeoip.net -> ipstack.com (though this will require each bfstop user to acquire his own api key)
  • other still free services such as https://geoip.nekudo.com, https://www.geoplugin.com/ (see https://ahmadawais.com/best-api-geolocating-an-ip-address/)
  • maybe a local geo-ip database solution using e.g. the files from https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/

codeling avatar Jul 15 '18 14:07 codeling

Thank you for your prompt response. Looking forward to your updates

pnuts007 avatar Jul 15 '18 15:07 pnuts007