[Mageia-sysadm] geoip and IPv6

Wed Feb 22 00:42:42 CET 2012

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.
+
+>> Consequence: it doesn't break our downloads, however, from the Web
+>> site, our IPv6 visitors are redirected to a completely random server
+>> to download our software. IPv4 are still redirected to their "closest"
+>> mirror.
+