2006-04-22 01:45:48 +00:00
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Finding the home country of a client using only the IP address can be
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difficult. Looking up the domain name associated with that address can
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provide some help, but many IP address are not reverse mapped to any
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useful domain, and the most common domain (.com) offers no help when
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2005-06-25 11:50:19 +00:00
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looking for country.
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2006-04-22 01:45:48 +00:00
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This module comes bundled with a database of countries where various IP
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addresses have been assigned. Although the country of assignment will
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probably be the country associated with a large ISP rather than the
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client herself, this is probably good enough for most log analysis
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applications, and under test has proved to be as accurate as
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reverse-DNS and WHOIS lookup.
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2006-04-22 01:45:48 +00:00
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WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/IP-Country/
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