switch to the December 3, 2016 geoip database
Quote from legacy/trac#19420: Alright, I just looked at the latest database file from yesterday (GeoIPASNum2.zip, shasum 997932353f5824eeb760459e0ad5f8ff2226c01c), and I believe we should update to this one rather than keeping the May 23, 2016 file. Some numbers: |**Database** | **AS number and name**| **AS number only**| |---------------------|-----------------------|-------------------| |February 24, 2015 | 213,789| 318| |January 4, 2016 | 235,323| 514| |February 1, 2016 | 236,474| 544| |**May 23, 2016** | **242,462**| **2,043**| |June 6, 2016 | 187,415| 57,773| |June 13, 2016 | 188,139| 57,179| |July 18, 2016 | 245,367| 1,362| |October 9, 2016 | 250,573| 1,372| |**December 3, 2016** | **250,447**| **1,010**| I also compared AS number/names to a much older database from February 24, 2015 that I found somewhere else on my hard disk. My idea was that organization names don't change that often. I attached a graph showing how newer databases compared to that old one. It looks like if we're roughly back to normal again. ![same-number-name-as-2015-02-24.png, 600px](uploads/same-number-name-as-2015-02-24.png, 600px) And this new file apparently doesn't have the issues stated above with AS8620 or AS12876. So, let me ask: are there important reasons **not** to switch to the December 3, 2016 database? If I don't hear major concerns by, Thursday, I'll bring this up at the next metrics team meeting and ideally decide to switch. Once a decision is made and implemented (or not) this ticket ought to be closed.
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