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From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Geographical location of an URL/IP-address
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 09:12:45
Message-Id: 201101231010.51536.joost@antarean.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Geographical location of an URL/IP-address by meino.cramer@gmx.de
1 On Sunday 23 January 2011 06:08:12 meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > is there any tool/mechanism to locate a given URL or IP-address on the
5 > globe automatically?
6 > I mean: I feed the tool with an IP-address or an URL and it will
7 > respond: France, Paris
8 >
9 > I dont mean a tool, whose output I have interpret.
10 >
11 > I want this for batch processing...
12 >
13 > Thank you very much in advance for any tool ;)
14 > Bet regards,
15 > mcc
16
17 Not sure if it exists yet, but you might want to start with the packages with
18 "geoip" in the name:
19 # eix geoip
20 [I] dev-libs/geoip
21 Available versions: 1.4.5 1.4.6{tbz2} {perl-geoipupdate}
22 Installed versions: 1.4.6{tbz2}(08:20:04 12/06/10)(-perl-geoipupdate)
23 Homepage: http://www.maxmind.com/geoip/api/c.shtml
24 Description: easily lookup countries by IP addresses, even when
25 Reverse DNS entries don't exist
26
27 * dev-php5/pecl-geoip
28 Available versions: ~1.0.7 ~1.0.7-r1 {php_targets_php5-2
29 php_targets_php5-3}
30 Homepage: http://pecl.php.net/geoip
31 Description: PHP extension to map IP address to geographic places
32
33 * dev-python/geoip-python
34 Available versions: 1.2.4
35 Homepage: http://www.maxmind.com/app/python
36 Description: Python bindings for GeoIP
37
38 * dev-ruby/net-geoip
39 Available versions: 0.07 {ruby_targets_ruby18}
40 Homepage: http://www.maxmind.com/app/ruby
41 Description: Ruby bindings for the GeoIP library
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