[tor-dev] Using MaxMind's GeoIP2 databases in tor, BridgeDB, metrics-*, Onionoo, etc.

[Nick Mathewson]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Nick Mathewson <nickm at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 5:15 AM, Karsten Loesing <karsten at torproject.org> wrote:
 [...]
>> Another option is to write a new tool that parses their full databases
>> and converts them into file formats we already support
 [...]
>
> Writing our own parser seems goofy.

Then again, I'm a goofy guy, and though the format's kinda ugly, I've
seen much worse.

https://github.com/nmathewson/mmdb-convert

If we use this thing, we should move it over into src/config in Tor.

It needs more hacking and testing, but at least it's pure python.

svv,
-- 
Nick