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Error fetching databases when behind ipv6. #130

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turbo opened this issue Jun 26, 2015 · 3 comments
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Error fetching databases when behind ipv6. #130

turbo opened this issue Jun 26, 2015 · 3 comments

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turbo commented Jun 26, 2015

Installing freegeoip on a server that is connected exclusively via ipv6 (most datacenters) fails with an tcp lookup error when trying to download the latest databases.

2015/06/26 20:40:13 database error: Database update failed: Get http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLite2-City.mmdb.gz: dial tcp: lookup geolite.maxmind.com: no DNS servers
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turbo commented Jun 26, 2015

This is apparently a known issue on servers in OVH datacenters and there is a workaround.

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turbo commented Jun 26, 2015

This is how to solve it:

sudo aptitude remove bind9 resolvconf
gksudo gedit /etc/resolv.conf

then add this the the file, save, restart freegeoip:

nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4

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fiorix commented Jun 26, 2015

:)

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