GeoIP database comparison

Roger Dingledine arma at mit.edu
Thu May 6 09:51:57 UTC 2010


On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:58:27AM +0200, Karsten Loesing wrote:
> In summary, I think we should ship Maxmind's free database with Tor, if
> the license permits it. I'm hoping to get much better usage statistics
> results for smaller countries like Tunisia from the free Maxmind. Also,
> Maxmind has more users and is therefore less likely to provide a broken
> update and not noticing for weeks.

Sounds great. Please add it to maint-0.2.1, and we can merge it
forward to master and include it in 0.2.2.14-alpha.

Thanks!
--Roger



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