# The net/GeoIP port

## GeoIP-1.4.8 – find the country where IP address/hostname originates from

## Description

    GeoIP is a C library that enables the user to find the country that any IP
    address or hostname originates from. It uses a file based database that is
    accurate as of October 2004. This database simply contains IP blocks as keys,
    and countries as values. This database should be more complete and accurate
    than using reverse DNS lookups. Commercial databases and automatic update
    services are available from http://www.maxmind.com/. Updated free databases
    are available from http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/.

    This module can be used to automatically select the geographically closest
    mirror, to analyze your web server logs to determine the countries of your
    visitors, for credit card fraud detection, and for software export controls.

WWW: http://www.maxmind.com/app/c

Categories:
  geo net

## Library dependencies

## Build dependencies

- STEM->=1.21:textproc/groff

## Run dependencies