[SOLVED] GeoIP database is hosted locally or online ?

[DoubleJ]

From the documentation on the link below, it is not clear to me whether the database is stored locally (and maybe updated every Tuesday ?) or whether the database is stored online and queried by OPNSense everytime?
In case of the latter, is there any caching mechanism to reduce querying ?

Link to doc on GeoIP: https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/ips.html#maxmind-geolite2-country

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Never mind. Found this forum message:
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=3081.msg9579#msg9579

Should have checked the forum first. :-o

[franco]

Hi there,

The aliases are all local with a fixed download time of 01:05 am daily.

To make this a little more interesting in 16.7, I've added the ability to set arbitrary schedules for alias updates under "System: Settings: Cron" by choosing the "Update and reload firewall aliases" command.


Cheers,
Franco