[GH-ISSUE #117] when will geodns support ispDB with geoip2, any plan for that? #369

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opened 2026-03-13 14:47:51 +03:00 by kerem · 4 comments

kerem commented

2026-03-13 14:47:51 +03:00

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Originally created by @dongbenxipao on GitHub (Jun 12, 2019).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/abh/geodns/issues/117

The lastest geodns only supports GeoIP2 if I remember right. But it only covers countryDB, cityDB and asnDB.
The older version reads ip.dat file which makes it possible to locate the client ISP. With the ISP info, the DNS servers can provide more reliable DNS resolve service in some complex networks.
Adding ispDB reader can make geodns more appealing, do you have any plan to support that?

Originally created by @dongbenxipao on GitHub (Jun 12, 2019). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/abh/geodns/issues/117 The lastest geodns only supports GeoIP2 if I remember right. But it only covers countryDB, cityDB and asnDB. The older version reads ip.dat file which makes it possible to locate the client ISP. With the ISP info, the DNS servers can provide more reliable DNS resolve service in some complex networks. Adding ispDB reader can make geodns more appealing, do you have any plan to support that?

kerem commented

2026-03-13 14:47:57 +03:00

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@abh commented on GitHub (Jun 12, 2019):

I'm not sure how you'd do targeting on the data that's in that database (that wouldn't just be ASN).

https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geoip2-isp-csv-database/

@abh commented on GitHub (Jun 12, 2019): I'm not sure how you'd do targeting on the data that's in that database (that wouldn't just be ASN). https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geoip2-isp-csv-database/

kerem commented

2026-03-13 14:48:02 +03:00

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@dongbenxipao commented on GitHub (Jun 13, 2019):

In some networks, the connections among ISP are not good. So client request from one ISP should better scheduled to the servers in the same ISP. The DNS server support geo targets including ISP(not only country, city) is very important in such network environment.
The maxmind does provide geoip-isp data, but the latest geodns doesn't support reading geoip-isp data. So, maybe i have to add some code to fix this if no plan to do this.

@dongbenxipao commented on GitHub (Jun 13, 2019): In some networks, the connections among ISP are not good. So client request from one ISP should better scheduled to the servers in the same ISP. The DNS server support geo targets including ISP(not only country, city) is very important in such network environment. The maxmind does provide geoip-isp data, but the latest geodns doesn't support reading geoip-isp data. So, maybe i have to add some code to fix this if no plan to do this.

kerem commented

2026-03-13 14:48:07 +03:00

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@abh commented on GitHub (Jun 13, 2019):

How would you use the ISP data differently than the ASN database?

@abh commented on GitHub (Jun 13, 2019): How would you use the ISP data differently than the ASN database?

kerem commented

2026-03-13 14:48:12 +03:00

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@abh commented on GitHub (Dec 28, 2019):