appliedsec/pygeoip

pygeoip.GeoIPError: Invalid database type, expected Org, ISP or ASNum

timss opened this issue · 3 comments

timss commented

I'm getting an error when trying to use pygeoip's org_by_name(self, hostname), but other functions work fine (as far as I've tested).

Tried on both Ubuntu 12.10 and Debian 6 Squeeze, with both geoip-database from their respective repositories and manual download from GeoIP Country Database Installation Instructions.

Python version is 2.7.3 in both cases
pygeoip is newest from PyPi, 0.2.6

>>> import pygeoip
>>> gi = pygeoip.GeoIP("/usr/share/GeoIP/GeoIP.dat", pygeoip.MEMORY_CACHE)
>>> gi.country_code_by_name("thevoid.no")
'DE'
>>> gi.org_by_name("thevoid.no")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<input>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pygeoip/__init__.py", line 548, in org_by_name
    return self.org_by_addr(addr)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pygeoip/__init__.py", line 531, in org_by_addr
    raise GeoIPError(message)
GeoIPError: Invalid database type, expected Org, ISP or ASNum

I don't know if there's a problem with pygeoip or the database.

tiwilliam commented

There are different kinds of GeoIP databases, the country database does not contain Org data. You can read more about the Org database here: http://www.maxmind.com/en/organization

timss commented

@tiwilliam Ah, ok thanks!