CentOS - Dec 2020 - strange RPM dependency observed in CentOS 7

On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 02:54:03PM +0100, Walter H.
wrote:
> Yes, then the interesting question, how can I make use of these
> GeoIP-features when
> doing these e.g.
> 
> nslookup??? 200:470:17:55::1
> nslookup??? 222.10.10.1
> nslookup?? www.centos.org
> host???? www.centos.org
Looking at the source, it looks like the geoip-related functions are
only called in the 'named' code and the libdns library.  I don't see
any features in dig, host or nslookup for looking up countries based
on IP.  However, the GeoIP package has a 'geoiplookup' command that
looks up a country from an IP.

-- 
Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>

On 08.12.2020 15:12, Jonathan Billings wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 02:54:03PM +0100, Walter H. wrote:
>> Yes, then the interesting question, how can I make use of these
>> GeoIP-features when
>> doing these e.g.
>>
>> nslookup??? 200:470:17:55::1
>> nslookup??? 222.10.10.1
>> nslookup?? www.centos.org
>> host???? www.centos.org
> Looking at the source, it looks like the geoip-related functions are
> only called in the 'named' code and the libdns library.  I
don't see
> any features in dig, host or nslookup for looking up countries based
> on IP.  However, the GeoIP package has a 'geoiplookup' command that
> looks up a country from an IP.
>
wouldn't it be a good idea to split this, so that 'bind-utils' has
no
dependency of neither GeoIP nor geoipupdate,
like it is in CentOS 6?

(on systems where the bind-utils are used, mostly no GeoIP is used - DNS 
vs. Web)

Thanks,

Walter