[Mageia-sysadm] geoip and IPv6

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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