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

[meino.cramer@gmx.de]

J. Roeleveld <joost@antarean.org> [11-01-23 10:16]:
> On Sunday 23 January 2011 06:08:12 meino.cramer@gmx.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 ;) ;)

 Thanks a lot! Have a nice weekend!
 Best regards,
 mcc