Re: maxmind geo nse script

[Roy Woods <woodrobuda () gmail com>]

thank David, I patched in the code and renamed the NSE file (as I'm gonna
do other experiments) and it worked great, thanks, RW


On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 8:58 PM, David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 01:50:41PM -0500, Roy Woods wrote:
> > NSE: Starting ip-geolocation-maxmind against 74.207.244.221.
> > Initiating NSE at 13:33
> > NSE: ip-geolocation-maxmind against 74.207.244.221 threw an error!
> > C:\Program Files\Nmap/scripts\ip-geolocation-maxmind.nse:405: Cannot
> open Maxmind database file
> > stack traceback:
> >         [C]: in function 'assert'
> >         C:\Program Files\Nmap/scripts\ip-geolocation-maxmind.nse:405: in
> function 'new'
> >         C:\Program Files\Nmap/scripts\ip-geolocation-maxmind.nse:597: in
> function <C:\Program Files\Nmap/scripts\ip-geolocation-maxmind.nse:586>
> >         (...tail calls...)
> >
> > I'm using the "GeoLiteCity.dat" file (downloaded today - to be sure).
> > Obviously running windows and have put the "GeoLiteCity.dat" file in the
> > /data and /nmap directory (cause now I'm getting paranoid - and do stupid
> > things when I'm paranoid).
>
> Thanks for this report. It looks like it was a bug in the script; it was
> searching relative to the current directory rather than relative to the
> installation directory. I think it is fixed in r31612.
>
> You can try applying the fix yourself by changing this line:
>   local gi = assert( GeoIP:new("nselib/data/GeoLiteCity.dat"), "Cannot
> read Maxmind database file in 'nselib/data/'.")
> to this:
>   local gi = assert(
> GeoIP:new(nmap.fetchfile("nselib/data/GeoLiteCity.dat")), "Cannot read
> Maxmind database file in 'nselib/data/'.")
>
> David Fifield
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