# GeoIP DB update issue

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geoip-db-update-issue/368776>\
**Category:** Elastic Search\
**Created:** [October 14, 2024, 1:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geoip-db-update-issue/368776 "2024-10-14T13:19:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 14, 2024, 4:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geoip-db-update-issue/368776/2 "2024-10-14T16:51:22Z")

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Hi @rahulm

Welcome to the community

What version are you on?

You may need to add another proxy as the actual geodb filles are pulled from Google storage

Perhaps look at this thread... There's a lot at debugging steps in

> [@GeoIP problems](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geoip-problems/368244/5):
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> So, the actual downloads come from buckets on GCP. Perhaps your firewall is blocking them... Go to your elasticsearch VM and try curl -O "https://storage.googleapis.com/elastic-paisano-production/maxmind/GeoLite2-City.tgz?X-Goog-Algorithm=GOOG4-RSA-SHA256&X-Goog-Credential=elastic-paisano-production%40elastic-apps-163815.iam.gserviceaccount.com%2F20241004%2Fhenk%2Fstorage%2Fgoog4\_request&X-Goog-Date=20241004T000027Z&X-Goog-Expires=86400&X-Goog-SignedHeaders=host&X-Goog-Signature=a3349cdd7b7c5…

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