[Mageia-sysadm] geoip and IPv6

Michael Scherer misc at zarb.org
Wed Feb 22 12:32:48 CET 2012


Le mardi 21 février 2012 à 23:49 +0000, Pascal Terjan a écrit :
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 23:42, Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 23:03, Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 19:29, Romain d'Alverny <rdalverny at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Hi there,
> >>>
> >>> pterjan gently installed/activated php-geoip on www for our download
> >>> pages, so I can use geoip_* functions. So far, I used to rely on
> >>> MaxMind specific library in PHP.
> >>>
> >>> However, it looks like it's completely lost with IPv6 clients (and the
> >>> library I used before was certainly as well, I'm just considering the
> >>> problem with a fresh eye here).
> >>
> >> The version in 1 did not have ipv6 data, I added it few months ago.
> >> As cauldron has a new version (1.4.8) I will check if it is safe to
> >> backport it to infra
> >>
> >
> > 1.4.8 improves ipv6 supports and fixes a security pb (Fix possible
> > directory traversal weakness in geoipupdate-pureperl.pl with malicious
> > update server), nothing too risky and no api breakage so I'm
> > submitting it to infra.
> 
> Except that champagne is running mandriva...

Time to upgrade, I guess.

-- 
Michael Scherer



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