May 22, 2020
xtables-addons: How to fix 'Can't open DBIP database' Error
When you are using the 3.8-* version of xtables-addons to harden your server with a geofense, chances are super high that things don't work anymore… The latest problem occurs after you have downloaded the geo-ip-tables from Maxmind and try to convert the tables for the geofense with xt_geoip_build. You get this error: Can't open DBIP database.
The simple reason for this is that the developers of xtables-addons decided to get rid of Maxmind (maybe because they did that thing with the user accounts a couple of months ago?
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