I have configured my MaxMind license key and account ID in 3 places: ~/.bashrc, <Discourse root>/config/discourse.conf and discourse.service (Systemd). But, it still not to query the location of IPs, but their organizations can be displayed. Like this: [image] IP Address query Location (Unknow…

I set my MaxMind account’s country to China, when downloading City.mmdb, it will return the following content: Downloads of this database from CN are forbidden due to US bulk sensitive data transfer rules I manually downloaded it here .

IP location still remains unknown when MaxMind license key configured

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MoRanYue (MRY) October 3, 2025, 4:57am 2

It displayed correct organization, but do not care the location…

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IP location still remains unknown when MaxMind license key configured

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