MaxMind database fetching is broken due to privacy change on MaxMind side

[jiriko]

https://blog.maxmind.com/2019/12/18/significant-changes-to-accessing-and-using-geolite2-databases/

requires license key now

[n3storm]

you can download db manually and put files at config/geoip directory

https://github.com/P3TERX/GeoLite.mmdb

[Magentron]

FYI: I have worked around this by:

• Using the package https://packagist.org/packages/torann/geoip, and
• updating its config/geoip.php:

      'services' => [
          ...
          'maxmind_database' => [
              ...
              'database_path' => storage_path('app/GeoLite2-City.mmdb'),
  

• and updating config/firewall.php:

      'geoip_database_path' => __DIR__ . '/../storage/app/',
  

• then the artisan command geoip:update can be used to update the GeoIP database

HTH