 So the folks over at MaxMind provide GeoIP database and services they are the leading IP intelligence company when it comes to geolocation information as in knowing where an IP address lives and This is actually an ever-changing landscape of as we kind of reach a level of exhaustion with IPv4 addresses They sometimes get bought and moved from their country where they were originally Assigned and back into the pool and then assigned to a new country MaxMind keeps up with all those changes so you don't have to because well there's a lot of IP addresses and They move around actually quite a bit. There's a lot of changes going on. They track all this They keep this database up to date with a really the most accurate database I'm aware of regarding now, but legal problems giving away data can get you in trouble and Significant changes to accessing using the geolite to databases reasons for change and they break down basically between Certain GDPR rules and the California Consumer Privacy Act and the do not sell requests Giving this data away and creating geo IP restrictions can cause some problems They break down some of the legal ramifications of that the solution to this problem is to have to register this So how does this affect PF blocker if you use geo IP functionality of PF blocker in G or if you use The IP reputation opponent of PA blocker in G or if you want to continue to see the country or IP block events in the reports tab You must register for a free MaxMind account. So it's not a move on their part to try to Monetize and charge for this data. They want to give it away But now they have to give it away behind a registration due to the fact that well legal and lawyers and all that fun stuff Now not here of course to debate any of the legal ramifications of all these different privacy laws that were designed to protect consumers But sometimes create inconveniences like this. I can tell you though that since this was posted several submitted three days ago Submitted two days ago The main developer I'll leave links all this of the PF blocker in G plug-in has worked with the folks at PF sense to get some updates Pushed relatively fast. So this problem can be solved now This only affects you if you're using the geo IP database with your PF blocker setup Does everyone use it not necessarily I Recommend using it if you are hosting something and you want and a little bit I see a little bit. This is not an end all the security, but it is one more layer You can make sure you do things like block addresses from countries. You don't want accessing your server sometimes this is done for of GDPR laws where you say I just want to block these countries and Not have them access my server where I have no business in those countries So I don't mind if they can't or if you want to protect yourself from penguin hackers in Antarctica and you want to block all those You know an arc IP addresses than the IPVs for space and block them from getting to your servers now granted any Strong attack against your servers. They pivot from a country that you do allow and at some point You know, it doesn't necessarily make you that much more secure But it does quiet down the logs a little bit when you block out some of the countries and some of the bad reputation Ones that are in this database now As far as the other way it works is for outbound someone will comment this Yeah, I don't always recommend blocking outbound IP addresses of countries because if you're surfing the web You'll find that website sometimes have dependencies in other countries So it is long as you're willing to troubleshoot that feel free to do it just throwing it out there So if you are someone who uses it, what do you have to do first? You'll create a free account then go through PF blocker now I haven't a whole in video on how to set the video on how to set up PF blocker and G the Development version I did it not that long ago someone said it messes me time your videos not relevant now Yeah, it is all you have to do and we're gonna show you real quick here The only thing different between my video the only thing that is really changed So was next or yes away or through the wizard and do the defaults finish Pretty easy And before it's gonna run do the customization now we just have to get that license key So it's gonna go ahead and pull this but it's not going to pull the license key So go ahead and let it finish this real quick All right that part's done. Then we're gonna go over here to IP and when you go follow the link and it's right here All the details first you just go to sign up and create the database Really simple you do have to give them an email address phone is optional I'm how'd you hear how do you plan to use the data? Let them know if you have blocker if you'd like to give them statistics You don't have to they do ask your intended use so they're gathering a little bit of data there Nothing really personal other than your email address and then you just paste in the license key. So max mine license key goes here That's pretty much it. It's not a really big deal. They even put the link to register here Right in the functionality. So this is in order to download it. So not really that much challenging More of a challenge to set up now the last couple things and this is let's say you have an already existing system And you want to check to see if it's Working and installed no problem This is my system. I already have it set up. It's already working I'm not going to run the query again. You don't want to get they'll rate limit you if you try to query this too many times Uh, but just like it says here if you want to list out this right here ls leh A user local share g oip you can see Um, the data was in there. I ran the update. I left this uh pulled up php Use your local pf blocker ng dc Pulls the latest list and cool now. I have as of december 31st the most up to date list Now this is a couple days after december 31st So it does have a december 31st date even though today is january 5th. Um, so yes, they're uh, there's a couple days behind So right here is this one is the geo ip light But some of these other ones that looks like we're updated on the 31st Even they mentioned they updated weekly So you may have a couple different dates in here depending on when it was updated But yes, uh, I've tested this on more than one system I've we've been slowly rolling it out for clients that we have this set up with Logging in setting it up putting the query in making sure it works because they already had it existing Not a big deal these uh commands Exactly you can copy and paste them in they work perfectly fine for doing this and feel free to join the discussion And I will also mention while i'm here um because i've done several videos on pf blocker The developer top notch this change came very quickly The developer also very quickly added the function to put the license and have it pull the license key in there Please go ahead and head over to the developers patron site Which of which you can find a link right here, which uh contact and github and twitter Please do some supporting of pf blocker if this is something use I am a donor of this project and a big supporter of pf blocker Because it's such a great add-on for pf sense and you know This is a uh not the main job that bbcan 177 has for doing this But like I said pf blocker is a great project if you can afford donate, please donate to pf blocker So i'll leave you guys with that i'll leave you with all the links to where you can read more about this But it's really not as big of a deal My video is still relevant because it's using there's not been any other significant changes other than We now have a max mine goip configuration where we drop a license key in and once you drop it in you actually get some query reports And i'll pull this over here real quick. Uh, look on january 5th I downloaded uh twice on two different systems. I have sit in here and then I can which license keys Well, this particular one one's from lts. One's for lts office. One's a demo one. One's the office server Cool. It's all working. 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