diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/geoip/geoipupdate-2.1.0/GeoIP.conf b/meta-networking/recipes-support/geoip/geoipupdate-2.2.1/GeoIP.conf
similarity index 100%
rename from meta-networking/recipes-support/geoip/geoipupdate-2.1.0/GeoIP.conf
rename to meta-networking/recipes-support/geoip/geoipupdate-2.2.1/GeoIP.conf
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/geoip/geoipupdate-2.1.0/geoipupdate.cron b/meta-networking/recipes-support/geoip/geoipupdate-2.2.1/geoipupdate.cron
similarity index 100%
rename from meta-networking/recipes-support/geoip/geoipupdate-2.1.0/geoipupdate.cron
rename to meta-networking/recipes-support/geoip/geoipupdate-2.2.1/geoipupdate.cron
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/geoip/geoipupdate_2.1.0.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/geoip/geoipupdate_2.2.1.bb
similarity index 70%
rename from meta-networking/recipes-support/geoip/geoipupdate_2.1.0.bb
rename to meta-networking/recipes-support/geoip/geoipupdate_2.2.1.bb
index 851ad414d4..7a3a002524 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/geoip/geoipupdate_2.1.0.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/geoip/geoipupdate_2.2.1.bb
@@ -2,22 +2,22 @@ SUMMARY = "Crontab entry to provide weekly updates of the GeoIP free databases."
 DESCRIPTION = "update databases for GeoIP"
 
 HOMEPAGE = "http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/"
-SECTION = "Development"
+SECTION = "net"
 
 DEPENDS = "zlib curl"
 
-SRC_URI = "https://github.com/maxmind/geoipupdate/releases/download/v2.1.0/geoipupdate-2.1.0.tar.gz \
+SRC_URI = "https://github.com/maxmind/geoipupdate/releases/download/v2.2.1/geoipupdate-2.2.1.tar.gz \
            file://GeoIP.conf \
            file://geoipupdate.cron \
           "
 
-SRC_URI[md5sum] = "9107d082f15c8e482f4b6f1080e7deaf"
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "7388c46f6c483ae609e5f5333a2585bc9713d56bb522da5c11b09d41c87aa5fb"
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "abfd4bb9dd7fd489c103888dde5f2a57"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "9547c42cc8620b2c3040fd8df95e8ee45c8b6ebcca7737d641f9526104d5f446"
 
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "\
-file://ChangeLog.md;md5=25f3500fad03ad7e6bf135b29c9c7c2d \
+file://ChangeLog.md;md5=5ca3d911ed549b0756b03410ff77fa62 \
 "
 
 inherit autotools