diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 8a7407a55958ece3660f0494185ecf8f865945c4..9ceecccd3893a2881311259929f7f1164800f065 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
+inventory/group_vars/geodns.yml
 .ssh/id_*
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index fa451ab8e4d3effad82497e9694c4958677da990..950ad15dc7a9dba63c8a093d7dc21924ff287d11 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -25,3 +25,8 @@ During deploy, (Apache) virtualhost ServerNames will be generated by the followi
   * proxy-[realm].[tld]
 
  Make sure you have DNS entries for those hostnames in geoDNS configuration.
+
+## geoDNS servers
+To automatically download geoDNS GeoLite2DB's add a file ```geodns.yml``` to ```inventory/group_vars``` with the following content:
+
+```geodns_licence: <your license key>```
diff --git a/roles/geodns/tasks/main.yml b/roles/geodns/tasks/main.yml
index cbf5218d811834e00e1bba6820ed8051c9ffc07f..a92b0590e5f711d89fb50c9a201632c2251f8bbc 100644
--- a/roles/geodns/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/geodns/tasks/main.yml
@@ -62,15 +62,20 @@
   notify:
     - "enable geodns job"
 
-- name: Copy GeoLite2DB's
-  ansible.builtin.copy:
-    src: "{{ item }}"
+- name: Download GeoLite2DB's
+  ansible.builtin.unarchive:
+    src: "https://download.maxmind.com/app/geoip_download?edition_id={{ item }}&license_key={{ geodns_licence }}&suffix=tar.gz"
     dest: "{{ geolite_dir }}"
     mode: '0644'
+    extra_opts: '--strip-components=1'
+    remote_src: yes
   with_items:
-    - GeoLite2-Country.mmdb
+    - GeoLite2-ASN
+    - GeoLite2-City
+    - GeoLite2-Country
   notify:
     - "enable geodns job"
+  when: geodns_licence is defined
 
 - name: Create geoDNS config
   ansible.builtin.template: