Blocked IP Location not showing anymore

[pnuts007]

When clicking on blocked IP address normally the location coordinates were shown.
Now it only shows a single line :

'No information available for that IP address'.
No changes were made, newest version installed.

[codeling]

bfstop is using the freegeoip service (https://freegeoip.net/).
Apparently this service has now been shut down.
I will try to find other similar services I can use and see if I can include a lookup to them in the next version!

[codeling]

Apparently the API has been discontinued as of July 1st (https://github.com/apilayer/freegeoip/).
As a future-proof solution to this, I will implement a few lookup services:

• the direct replacement of freegeoip.net -> ipstack.com (though this will require each bfstop user to acquire his own api key)
• other still free services such as https://geoip.nekudo.com, https://www.geoplugin.com/ (see https://ahmadawais.com/best-api-geolocating-an-ip-address/)
• maybe a local geo-ip database solution using e.g. the files from https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/

[pnuts007]

Thank you for your prompt response. Looking forward to your updates

[codeling]

IP address lookup is for now disabled via codeling/com_bfstop@e9a8ef1.

It will be implemented in a future version