Installed OK but country always AA - help troubleshooting

[Bombdogs]

Hi,

we've used this great VMOD for some time on Varnish3 without issue. Building a new server from scratch with Varnish4 (centOS based) and have built the GeoIP VMOD ok...

# ls -al /usr/lib64/varnish/vmods/
total 336
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   4096 Dec  7 12:13 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root   4096 Dec  2 12:25 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 120206 Dec  1 10:53 libvmod_directors.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  61260 Dec  7 12:13 libvmod_geoip.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    971 Dec  7 12:13 libvmod_geoip.la
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  41337 Dec  7 12:13 libvmod_geoip.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  99764 Dec  1 10:53 libvmod_std.so

Have the following in the VCL...

import geoip;
sub vcl_recv
{
  set req.http.X-Forwarded-For = client.ip;
  set req.http.X-GeoIP = geoip.country_code(req.http.X-Forwarded-For);
  ...

However always getting "AA" for the country code - which the README explains is an error (have also tried the country & contry_code_from_ip equivelant methods). Ive checked that the IP is req.http.X-Forwarded-For is accurately reflecting user's IP. We have the Geoip package installed and the MaxMind .dat files are in place...

# ls -al /usr/share/GeoIP/
total 54620
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     4096 Dec  7 12:53 .
drwxr-xr-x 81 root root     4096 Dec  7 10:23 ..
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       16 Dec  7 10:06 GeoIPASNum.dat -> GeoLiteASNum.dat
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  4705700 Jul 11 08:44 GeoIPASNumv6.dat
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       15 Dec  7 10:06 GeoIPCity.dat -> GeoLiteCity.dat
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       17 Dec  7 10:06 GeoIPCityv6.dat -> GeoLiteCityv6.dat
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       18 Dec  7 12:53 GeoIP.dat -> GeoLiteCountry.dat
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  1688515 Jul 11 08:44 GeoIPv6.dat
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  3958758 Jul 11 08:44 GeoLiteASNum.dat
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       16 Dec  7 10:06 GeoLiteASNumv6.dat -> GeoIPASNumv6.dat
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 21933406 Jul 11 08:44 GeoLiteCity.dat
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 22721994 Jul 11 08:45 GeoLiteCityv6.dat
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   904073 Jul 11 08:44 GeoLiteCountry.dat

Any help or guidance on what/where to check next would be greatly appreciated!

Many thanks,
Paul

[jesusmc]

Hi,

Same problem, any solution? Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with Varnish 4.1

Thanks in advance.

[SpoddyCoder]

@jesusmc didn't find a solution I'm afraid. Ended up using the vmod here instead

https://github.com/fgsch/libvmod-geoip2

[jesusmc]

Hi,

I debug for a couple of hours varnish, varnishd is not loading any GeoIP database file, so I think the init method is never called. I deploy your recomentadion @SpoddyCoder, it works perfectly.

Thanks in advance.