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GeoIP is a C library that enables the user to find the country that any IP
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address or hostname originates from. It uses a file based database that is
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accurate as of October 2004. This database simply contains IP blocks as keys,
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and countries as values. This database should be more complete and accurate
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than using reverse DNS lookups. Commercial databases and automatic update
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services are available from http://www.maxmind.com/. Updated free databases
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are available from http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/.
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This module can be used to automatically select the geographically closest
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mirror, to analyze your web server logs to determine the countries of your
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visitors, for credit card fraud detection, and for software export controls.
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