software77 websites are not reachable

[atoomic]

http://webnet77.com/ and http://software77.net/geo-ip/ where the files were available seems not available.
From Reddit it appears to happen a month ago:
https://www.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/ngdt7r/any_idea_what_happened_to_software77net/

Any idea if this is temporary?
Where to download updated databases?

thanks for any input
nicolas

[bricas]

Sorry, I haven't used this module or service in years. It's quite possible the data is offline permanently.

[atoomic]

Thanks for your reply, I mainly opened this case to hopefully get some feedbacks and alternate solutions from the community.

Right now I'm considering using the IP2Location™ LITE / Free IP Geolocation Database from MaxMind but would like to know if one organization keep providing these databases.

[atoomic]

We should note that webnet77 is dead, and provide a tool to convert the Free MaxMind database to use with this package.
I got some pending work to perform such a task, but due to license we would not be able to distribute it.

[japharl]

There is an option. In tor's source code, there is the tor-geoip database (located in the tor source code directory as /tor/src/config/geoip and /tor/src/config/geoip6 ), which is based upon https://location.ipfire.org, but in (nearly) the same format from software77.net format. cc-by-sa 4.0 license.

[atoomic]

How often that tor database is updated?

[japharl]

It depends (from my looking at it). I think location.ipfire.org updates daily in a binary format, and the tor extract of that database is weekly or monthly.

[japharl]

The reason why I'm not using location.ipfire.org's apis directly (ie the location tool they provide), is that they seem to have distributions / source code for specific versions of debian (which hasn't been updated in a while). https://location.ipfire.org/databases/1/ is the location of the most recent databases.