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Latest revision as of 20:18, 23 June 2016
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Package info
Homepage: http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/legacy/downloadable Description: easily lookup countries by IP addresses, even when Reverse DNS entries don't exist License: LGPL-2.1 GPL-2 MaxMind2
geoip offers free versions of their databases which are claimed to be 99.5% accurate. They are updated once per month on the 2nd.
installation (gentoo)
# emerge -av --quiet dev-libs/geoip
default data directory
/usr/share/GeoIP
usage examples
check database versions
# geoiplookup -v /usr/share/GeoIP
lookup country only
# geoiplookup -f /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoIP.dat 31.192.109.7 GeoIP Country Edition: RU, Russian Federation
lookup city only
# geoiplookup -f /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoLiteCity.dat 142.11.235.1 GeoIP City Edition, Rev 1: US, OK, Oklahoma, Tulsa, 74103, 36.155399, -95.993896, 671, 918
lookup ASN only
# geoiplookup -f /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoIPASNum.dat 216.77.188.73 GeoIP ASNum Edition: AS6389 BellSouth.net Inc.
update the free databases
# geoipupdate.sh -f Updating GeoIP databases...
