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Geo::IPfree(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Geo::IPfree(3)
NAME
Geo::IPfree - Look up the country of an IPv4 address
SYNOPSIS
use Geo::IPfree;
my $geo = Geo::IPfree->new;
my( $code1, $name1 ) = $geo->LookUp( '200.176.3.142' );
# use memory to speed things up
$geo->Faster;
# lookup by hostname
my( $code2, $name2, $ip2 ) = $geo->LookUp( 'www.cnn.com' );
DESCRIPTION
Geo::IPfree is a Perl module that determines the originating country of an arbitrary IPv4
address. It uses a local file-based database to provide basic geolocation services.
An updated version of the database can be obtained by visiting the Webnet77 website:
<http://software77.net/geo-ip/>.
METHODS
new( [$db] )
Creates a new Geo::IPfree instance. Optionally, a database filename may be passed in to
load a custom data set rather than the version shipped with the module.
LoadDB( $filename )
Load a specific database to use to look up the IP addresses.
LookUp( $ip | $hostname )
Given an IP address or a hostname, this function returns three things:
o The ISO 3166 country code (2 chars)
o The country name
o The IP address resolved
NB: In order to use the location services on a hostname, you will need to have an internet
connection to resolve a host to an IP address.
If you pass a private IP address (for example 192.168.0.1), you'll get back a country code
of ZZ, and country name of "Reserved for private IP addresses".
Clean_Cache( )
Clears any cached lookup data.
Faster( )
Make the LookUp() faster, which is good if you're going to be calling Lookup() many times.
This will load the entire DB into memory and read from there, not from disk (good way for
slow disk or network disks), but use more memory. The module "Memoize" will be enabled for
some internal functions too.
Note that if you call Lookup() many times, you'll end up using a lot of memory anyway, so
you'll be better off using a lot of memory from the start by calling Faster(), and getting
an improvement for all calls.
nslookup( $host, [$last_lookup] )
Attempts to resolve a hostname to an IP address. If it fails on the first pass it will
attempt to resolve the same hostname with 'www.' prepended. $last_lookup is used to
suppress this behavior.
ip2nb( $ip )
Encodes $ip into a numerical representation.
nb2ip( $number )
Decodes $number back to an IP address.
dec2baseX( $number )
Converts a base 10 (decimal) number to base 86.
baseX2dec( $number )
Converts a base 86 number to base 10 (decimal).
VARS
$GeoIP->{db}
The database file in use.
$GeoIP->{handler}
The database file handler.
$GeoIP->{dbfile}
The database file path.
$GeoIP->{cache} BOOLEAN
Set/tell if the cache of LookUp() is on. If it's on it will cache the last 5000
queries. Default: 1
The cache is good when you are parsing a list of IPs, generally a web log. If in the
log you have many lines with the same IP, GEO::IPfree won't have to make a full search
for each query, it will cache the last 5000 different IPs. After 5000 IPs an existing
IP is removed from the cache and the new data is stored.
Note that the Lookup make the query without the last IP number (xxx.xxx.xxx.0), then
the cache for the IP 192.168.0.1 will be the same for 192.168.0.2 (they are the same
query, 192.168.0.0).
DB FORMAT
The data file has a list of IP ranges & countries, for example, from 200.128.0.0 to
200.103.255.255 the IPs are from BR. To make a fast access to the DB the format tries to
use less bytes per input (block). The file was in ASCII and in blocks of 7 bytes: XXnnnnn
XX -> the country code (BR,US...)
nnnnn -> the IP range using a base of 85 digits
(not in dec or hex to get space).
See CPAN for updates of the DB...
NOTES
The file ipscountry.dat is a dedicated format for Geo::IPfree. To convert it see the tool
"ipct2txt.pl" in the "misc" directoy.
The module looks for "ipscountry.dat" in the following locations:
o /usr/local/share
o /usr/local/share/GeoIPfree
o through @INC (as well as all @INC directories plus "/Geo")
o from the same location that IPfree.pm was loaded
SEE ALSO
o http://software77.net/geo-ip/
AUTHOR
Graciliano M. P. <gm AT virtuasites.br>
MAINTAINER
Brian Cassidy <bricas AT cpan.org>
THANK YOU
Thanks to Laurent Destailleur (author of AWStats) that tested it on many OS and fixed bugs
for them, like the not portable sysread, and asked for some speed improvement.
COPYRIGHT & LICENSE
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
terms as Perl itself.
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