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Cirrostratus

Aug 23, 2016

Does BIG IP Ver. 12.X support automatic updates of the Geo Location Database?

Hi,

We are using F5 BIG IP Ver 11.6.0 at the moment. We did employ Geo-blocking for a while however we found that we needed to manually update the DB or we were soon outdated and we saw some IPs being incorrectly identified as IP addresses are reissued.

I have heard that F5 BIG IP Ver 12.0/12.1 allows to Geo Location databases to udpate automatically. I have tried to find official documentation on this however I have not been able to find any information at all. Is anyone able to confirm or point me in the right direction of the documentation that shows Ver 12.0/12.1 does support automatic updates of the Geo Locations databases? Thank You

Kind Regards Chris

Tikka_Nagi_1315
Sep 29, 2016
Chris,

I don't believe this has been done. The current solution article for updating the database list version 12.x under 'Applies To':

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/11000/100/sol11176.html

Also, I do know there is an enhancement request still open on this internally.

Thanks, Tikka

Chris_Gray_2395
Nimbostratus
Jul 26, 2017
I made a PHP script that will do most of the work for you. you still need to get the url for the download, as its unique to each user, but the code will download the file for you, the push it to each BigIP

https://devcentral.f5.com/codeshare/auto-updates-geoip-database-on-big-ip-1061
- boneyard
  MVP
  Aug 06, 2017
  nice, thanks for sharing.
  
  anyone asked F5 about the RFE recently?
Vijith_182946
Cirrostratus
Sep 30, 2016
I think an iRule will help to automate geo location db. here is one discussion thread https://devcentral.f5.com/questions/geolocation-data-auto-update
- boneyard
  MVP
  Sep 30, 2016
  that isn't an iRule but a perl script which should be run on an external server, might work in your case but not everyone's choice.
Tikka_Nagi_1315
Historic F5 Account
Sep 29, 2016
Chris,

I don't believe this has been done. The current solution article for updating the database list version 12.x under 'Applies To':

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/11000/100/sol11176.html

Also, I do know there is an enhancement request still open on this internally.

Thanks, Tikka
- boneyard
  MVP
  Sep 30, 2016
  question's about it since v10 but not important enough it seems. do you have the RFE ID should people can tag along?