Re: [gentoo-user] Geographical location of an URL/IP-address

[J. Roeleveld]

On Sunday 23 January 2011 10:22:52 meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
> J. Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> [11-01-23 10:16]:
> > On Sunday 23 January 2011 06:08:12 meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > is there any tool/mechanism to locate a given URL or IP-address on the
> > > globe automatically?
> > > I mean: I feed the tool with an IP-address or an URL and it will
> > > respond: France, Paris
> > >
> > > I dont mean a tool, whose output I have interpret.
> > >
> > > I want this for batch processing...
> > >
> > > Thank you very much in advance for any tool ;)
> > > Bet regards,
> > > mcc
> >
> > Not sure if it exists yet, but you might want to start with the packages
> > with "geoip" in the name:
> > # eix geoip
> > [I] dev-libs/geoip
> >
> >      Available versions:  1.4.5 1.4.6{tbz2} {perl-geoipupdate}
> >      Installed versions:  1.4.6{tbz2}(08:20:04
> >      12/06/10)(-perl-geoipupdate) Homepage:
> >      http://www.maxmind.com/geoip/api/c.shtml Description:
> >      easily lookup countries by IP addresses, even when
> >
> > Reverse DNS entries don't exist
> >
> > * dev-php5/pecl-geoip
> >
> >      Available versions:  ~1.0.7 ~1.0.7-r1 {php_targets_php5-2
> >
> > php_targets_php5-3}
> >
> >      Homepage:            http://pecl.php.net/geoip
> >      Description:         PHP extension to map IP address to geographic
> >      places
> >
> > * dev-python/geoip-python
> >
> >      Available versions:  1.2.4
> >      Homepage:            http://www.maxmind.com/app/python
> >      Description:         Python bindings for GeoIP
> >
> > * dev-ruby/net-geoip
> >
> >      Available versions:  0.07 {ruby_targets_ruby18}
> >      Homepage:            http://www.maxmind.com/app/ruby
> >      Description:         Ruby bindings for the GeoIP library
> >
> > Found 4 matches.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Joost
>
> Hi Joost,
>
>  LIFESAVER!
>
>   :)
>
>  100% what I need! Great! And your email account is in the
>  Netherlands by the way ;) ;)

It isn't actually :)

But my server and ISP is, so that's probably what you found :)

>  Thanks a lot! Have a nice weekend!

Hope you had a good weekend so far :)

>  Best regards,
>  mcc

--
Joost

PS. from the domain, I'm guessing you're in Germany?