diff --git a/package/geoip/geoip.hash b/package/geoip/geoip.hash
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..717bec4b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/geoip/geoip.hash
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# Locally calculated
+sha256  8ef059ee3680b39db967248331ec41188f4b45f86a4a77e39247ff41b61efd7c  GeoIP-1.6.2.tar.gz
diff --git a/package/geoip/geoip.mk b/package/geoip/geoip.mk
index bbfa014fe..5664f0365 100644
--- a/package/geoip/geoip.mk
+++ b/package/geoip/geoip.mk
@@ -4,12 +4,11 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-GEOIP_VERSION = 1.6.0
+GEOIP_VERSION = 1.6.2
 GEOIP_SOURCE = GeoIP-$(GEOIP_VERSION).tar.gz
-GEOIP_SITE = $(call github,maxmind,geoip-api-c,v$(GEOIP_VERSION))
-GEOIP_AUTORECONF = YES
+GEOIP_SITE = https://github.com/maxmind/geoip-api-c/releases/download/v$(GEOIP_VERSION)/
 GEOIP_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
 GEOIP_LICENSE = LGPLv2.1+
-GEOIP_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE COPYING
+GEOIP_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
 
 $(eval $(autotools-package))