diff --git a/net/GeoIP/Makefile b/net/GeoIP/Makefile
index 5f06634d080..92c07463148 100644
--- a/net/GeoIP/Makefile
+++ b/net/GeoIP/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.52 2017/11/03 10:26:11 sthen Exp $
+# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.53 2018/01/05 14:21:58 sthen Exp $
 
 COMMENT-main=	find the country where IP address/hostname originates from
 COMMENT-db=	GeoIP GeoLite database: IPv4/v6 address to country
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ COMMENT-city=	GeoIP GeoLite database: IPv4/v6 address to city
 COMMENT-asn=	GeoIP GeoLite database: IPv4/v6 address to AS number
 
 V=		1.6.11
-D=		20171103
+REVISION-main=	0
+D=		20180105
 DISTNAME=	GeoIP-$V
 PKGNAME-main=	GeoIP-$V
 PKGNAME-db=	geolite-country-$D
diff --git a/net/GeoIP/distinfo b/net/GeoIP/distinfo
index e01d6f2ec9a..6cbe62d7c1e 100644
--- a/net/GeoIP/distinfo
+++ b/net/GeoIP/distinfo
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 SHA256 (GeoIP-1.6.11.tar.gz) = sOWpIgC1q1QNEYmD97cZHK9PrxroecRK+j/yoqvNsPU=
-SHA256 (geolite-data-20171103.tar.xz) = ZCnuQWsyTWIkPcKvh6SuFt/KnFUHoNQEKHCiz1tlzs8=
+SHA256 (geolite-data-20180105.tar.xz) = OUWK5bFmoskMvyWptzmu8o16BDZffEAUw7cSXGgJrsE=
 SIZE (GeoIP-1.6.11.tar.gz) = 471777
-SIZE (geolite-data-20171103.tar.xz) = 22281300
+SIZE (geolite-data-20180105.tar.xz) = 22164940
diff --git a/net/GeoIP/pkg/MESSAGE-main b/net/GeoIP/pkg/MESSAGE-main
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e69aed176d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net/GeoIP/pkg/MESSAGE-main
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+
+GeoIP legacy databases are deprecated upstream and updates to these will stop.
+The free GeoLite legacy databases will no longer be updated after 1 April 2018.
+See https://blog.maxmind.com/tag/geolite-legacy/
+