[Mageia-sysadm] geoip and IPv6

[Pascal Terjan]

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...