Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Currently, AuthMeReloaded connects to a remote host and tries to download the GeoIP database at every server startup (at every startup because the file does not exist), but every time it fails.

Since I don't use and won't use any of the AuthMeReloaded geolocation features, I disabled all the protection options in the config, and I didn't register for access to the database and fill the clientId and licenseKey fields, but the remote GeoIP database checking is still performed :/

Describe the solution you'd like
As a solution, it would be great to be able to disable the remote GeoIP database checking entirely (on an opt-out basis, of course) if someone doesn't use and doesn't plan to use any of the AuthMeReloaded geolocation features. It will reduce some of the (superfluous) Internet traffic it currently generates, make the logs a bit cleaner, and even save a few CPU cycles.

It seems that the problem still exists in the latest dev build. I still get warned during each startup after setting enableProtection and enableProtectionRegistered to false.

[INFO]: [AuthMe] Downloading GEO IP database, because the old database is older than 30 days or doesn't exist
[INFO]: Done (8.314s)! For help, type "help"
[WARN]: [AuthMe] No MaxMind credentials found in the configuration file! GeoIp protections will be disabled.
[INFO]: [AuthMe] There is no newer GEO IP database uploaded to MaxMind. Using the old one for now.
[INFO]: Timings Reset
[WARN]: [AuthMe] Could not download GeoLiteAPI database [FileNotFoundException]: plugins\AuthMe\GeoLite2-Countr
y.mmdb (系统找不到指定的文件。)

How can I disable it?

The ticket was more about doing download requests even though no credentials are given. The associated change fixed that. The log message represent that.

However, an existing file is still parsed although the result won't be used if the configuration option is disabled.

I was just trying to get API key, and, firstly, GeoIP didn't list my country, then it said that i use VPN or disposable email (none of which were true), and then it just banned me (temporarily, but, still). So i am not able to use this plugin, untill this feature is released :(

@games647, unfortunately, server does not start until i provide a token

@oakwire7 you can still use the plugin. Only the GeoIP feature will be disabled for you.

@oakwire7 Please post the configuration, plugin version and log file, so we could test it. I just tested it against the default configuration and that worked fine.

Get the latest version from Jenkins: https://ci.codemc.io/job/AuthMe/job/AuthMeReloaded/

@games647
authme.log

Github does not allow yml files, so i renamed it to .txt
config.txt

Version: AuthMe-5.6.0-beta2 (currently latest)

Beta2 is from 2021...

@krusic22
but its the latest release… https://github.com/AuthMe/AuthMeReloaded/releases

@krusic22
thanks, i'll try