Required settings:¶

AccountID

Your MaxMind account ID. This was formerly known as UserId.

LicenseKey

Your case-sensitive MaxMind license key.

EditionIDs

List of space-separated database edition IDs. Edition IDs may consist of letters, digits, and dashes. For example, GeoIP2-City would download the GeoIP2 City database (GeoIP2-City). Note: this was formerly called ProductIds.

Optional settings:¶

DatabaseDirectory

The directory to store the database files. If not set, the default is /var/lib/GeoIP. This can be overridden at run time by the -d command line argument.

Host

The host name of the server to use. The default is updates.maxmind.com.

Proxy

The proxy host name or IP address. You may optionally specify a port number, e.g., 127.0.0.1:8888. If no port number is specified, 1080 will be used.

ProxyUserPassword

The proxy user name and password, separated by a colon. For instance, username:password.

PreserveFileTimes

Whether to preserve modification times of files downloaded from the server. This option is either 0 or 1. The default is 0.

LockFile

The lock file to use. This ensures only one geoipupdate process can run at a time. Note: Once created, this lockfile is not removed from the filesystem. The default is .geoipupdate.lock under the DatabaseDirectory.

RetryFor

The amount of time to retry for when errors during HTTP transactions are encountered. It can be specified as a (possibly fractional) decimal number followed by a unit suffix. Valid time units are ns, us (or µs), ms, s, m, h. The default is 5m (5 minutes).

Deprecated settings:¶

The following are deprecated and will be ignored if present:

Protocol

SkipPeerVerification

SkipHostnameVerification