Core: GeoIP license change on 30.12.19

[mimugmail]

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On 30th december the license of GeoIP dabase will change and an account is required to download signatures. Also the download location will change.

https://blog.maxmind.com/2019/12/18/significant-changes-to-accessing-and-using-geolite2-databases/

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Maybe we have to force all users to create an account and save them somewhere.
In the meantime there won't be any updates

[AdSchellevis]

I'm not sure if there are alternatives, need to look into it.

[AdSchellevis]

pretty inconvenient this, there aren’t a lot of other choices, the link to create an account is currently non-existent and the current link will fail to work in about a week....

[oschwald]

The blog post has been updated with the new license and sign-up details.

[AdSchellevis]

@oschwald ok, thanks, I'll take a look.

[AdSchellevis]

It's a work in progress, you can enter the download location now

We might need a bit more feedback and documentation, maybe also document the zip payload so other option might be possible as well.

[mimugmail]

Looks nice, thx. I'll create an account later today

[marjohn56]

I've added the zip link, should it update as soon as I click save?

[mimugmail]

CSV zip link works great, you'll see the downloads in your statistics at maxmind.
Seems they are collecting every bit of your privacy ...

[marjohn56]

Yep, it worked overnight. The timestamp is a little ambiguous though, I think that it needs to be made clear that it relates to that date/time that Maxmind updated the data, otherwise I foresee comments and questions arising.

Nice work Ad..

[AdSchellevis]

I'm likely going to add a bit of documentation about the settings.
We might consider hosting a file for our commercial users ourselves, although we haven't decided about that yet.

[marjohn56]

Sounds good, If I get chance I'll create a wiki for it, I have a few days off but at present I'm re-purposing my mail server ( no longer using it ) into a Hyper-V system, should be done today hopefully.

[marjohn56]

Have you noticed that if you don't enter a licence key and just leave it like this:

https://download.maxmind.com/app/geoip_download?edition_id=GeoLite2-Country-CSV&licence_key=My_Licence_key&suffix=zip

You still get the file..

I was just creating a wiki help file and clicked on the link before I put my licence key in and I got the file..

[oschwald]

After 12/30, the license key will be required to be valid. Right now, an invalid key is treated the same as no key for free GeoLite downloads.

[marjohn56]

Cool.. OK, well it works so that's all good. I'll remove the comment I added to the wiki.

[AdSchellevis]

Added a small message when using GeoIP and no addresses are found (yet)

[AdSchellevis]

We should probably do a squash merge of the changes into stable/19.7, so we can offer a opnsense-patch statement for people to use this until we have a release available. @fichtner what do you think?

[fichtner]

Yes, needs to be in 19.7.9 anyway. 😊

On 29. Dec 2019, at 14:59, Ad Schellevis [e-mail] wrote:


We should probably do a squash merge of the changes into stable/19.7, so we can offer a opnsense-patch statement for people to use this until we have a release available. @fichtner what do you think?

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[AdSchellevis]

opnsense-patch 0229cd54

should do the trick.

[andreaslink-de]

I was exactly following the guide, created an account at maxmind,created a licence key, but always only get "_Invalid license key_" when trying to download the zip as a first validation test - even after more than 5 mins to get the key activated.
Are you sure this works, when do it right from scratch? I just updated to OPNsense 19.7.9.

[marjohn56]

a pull request has already been issued. Damn sure I originally copied the text from their site when I created the doc. Either they changed it or I was in spelling correct mode.

[AdSchellevis]

@marjohn56 my machine at home has the following (which worked and still does):

https://download.maxmind.com/app/geoip_download?edition_id=GeoLite2-Country-CSV&license_key=XXXXX&suffix=zip

[AdSchellevis]

I'll pull the docs and publish them again, didn't see the typo as well :)

[andreaslink-de]

Yes, solved it as well, there was an issue with "licence_key" vs. "license_key" and I did not recognize it either. Problem solved with correct spelling :). So updating the documentation will fix it!

[AdSchellevis]

done https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/how-tos/maxmind_geo_ip.html

[andreaslink-de]

BTW: The documentation does not say anything about an automated refresh cycle, so do I need to setup a cron in parallel (like "Update and reload firewall aliases") or how often are the GeoIP details updated aka the CSV downloaded? Who/What is responsible for updating it and where can I verify it was successful?

[marjohn56]

@Ad - is there any reason for the Geo page not having a manual test button?

I know you put it together at very short notice, and very well done, but after 20.1 is released should we take another look at that?

[AdSchellevis]

@marjohn56 I'm not against a test button, but functionally it's the same as it was now. @andreaslink-de it's updated once a day if used (the same as it was before)

https://github.com/opnsense/core/blob/644b4f82c26a06af8c4abdc58c2f45d497ee1de4/src/opnsense/scripts/filter/lib/alias.py#L169-L173

It doesn't make sense to update more often, since these lists don't change that often anyway.

[marjohn56]

No I agree with that, but if you are a first time user or as with the kerfuffle that happened yesterday, it would be useful to be able to test. I think the free version is only updated weakly or weekly. :)

[vistalba]

I followed the guide exactly today morning (https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/how-tos/maxmind_geo_ip.html) and I can download the zip file successfully from my browser.

If I put the link in the opnsense config and click apply nothing happens. Counter still on "0". Also after a reboot so I don't know if it's working.

Everytime I open the "Aliases" again I get the PopUp Message again:

"In order to use GeoIP, you need to configure a source in the GeoIP settings tab."

Is this normal? If it's just once a day, then it should be mentioned in the Docs or build in a test button to test if it works.
Should this message disappear if a proper link is set?

[andreaslink-de]

Hej @vistalba I had the same problem and finally "fixed it" by going into my GeoIP Alias (first tab) added one random country, saved it and and clicked on "Apply" on the Alias page at the botton. That moment it was refreshed first time and on second tab you could see the file to be downloaded and geolocations were counted. So it seems, it needs at least one change to refresh it all.

[vistalba]

@andreaslink-de Thanks! Worked for me too.