On this post brief outline of install or update the latest GeoIP Country on Unix/Linux.

Using wget command can download the Geolite file 

# wget -N http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCountry/GeoIP.dat.gz

Once you have downloaded the database need to uncompress that file using gunzip command,
 
# gunzip GeoIP.dat.gz

Note : -N option to only download if the file has been updated

Find out location of geoip database,
 
#  whereis  geoip
geoip: /usr/local/geoip

#  cd /usr/local/geoip/share/GeoIP
or
# cd /Geo-Ip-Path/share/GeoIP

Before changes take a backup a existing GeoIP database
 
# cp GeoIP.conf GeoIP.conf_bak

# cp /root/GeoIP.dat .

Once you have updated the GeoIP.dat file need to restart named.


netstat -anp | grep named



tcp        0      0 192.168.0.125:53            0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      1252/named          

tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:53                0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      1252/named          

udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:55933               0.0.0.0:*                               1252/named          

udp        0      0 192.168.0.125:53            0.0.0.0:*                               1252/named          

udp        0      0 127.0.0.1:53                0.0.0.0:*                               1252/named          

unix  2      [ ]         DGRAM                    289986 7678/named         

you can directly kill and start the named again
 
# pkill -9 named

#  /usr/local/bind/sbin/named -s

Note : PKILL is specified to Process Kill