Darren_Walker_2
Aug 30, 2017Cirrus
Options for geoip data like country and city information (from Digital Element).
We have a contract with Digital Element where we can go to their portal and get the F5GeoIPCity2.dat. Directly from F5 we download the ISP.dat, Org.dat and IPv6.dat. Is there a reason why we have a middle man and get this City2.dat file from a 3rd party? I tried looking around and saw Jason Reed respond to a question with this:
The IP geolocation database is currently provided by Digital Element per K21866. K12866: Troubleshooting IP geolocation database inaccuracies https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K12866
That article doesn't say why we get these files from Digital Element. Does that mean that's our only option for this type of geo-ip data? Does F5 provide this .dat file directly?