GeoIP is a web service that provides IP Address Lookup and GeoTargeting information.
Questions tagged [geoip]
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What are the methods used by GeoIP services besides WHOIS info?
I was just wondering how GeoIP services collect data about IPs geo location besides checking IP address WHOIS information. For example I stumbled upon this website, that says that IP 74.207.244.221 is being located in Fremont, California:…
Learner
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Is it possible to correct my GeoIP location
Numerous services and advertising do GeoIP lookups. They get the country correct, but often the city is wrong. Are there places where I can go and correct this, letting people know the actual location of my IP address. I have a static IP, so it's…
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IP GeoLocator. Need included script to take source of IPs from txt document
Below is a shell script I would really like to be able to feed a txt document of IP addresses to determine countries accessing my website.
Inside the text document, lets call it "IPlist.txt" might look something…
James
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Can I get IP addresses for the US or a certain state?
How can I easily get the IP address blocks for a particular state or city within the US?
I was thinking that I could plug that into my iptables firewall to restrict traffic.
Walter
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How often are IP addresses blocks for countries updated?
I have a website where I want to find out visitor's country from his IP address. There are some databases of country's IPs range that can be used. when I download them to my database, should I be woried about some changes made in future? How often…
tomas.teicher
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Set fall back or default geolocation in Google Chrome?
For some reason my home broadband isn't resolving a geolocation inside Chrome, this isn't a problem at work.
Is it possible to set a default or a fall back location in Chrome if the lookup fails?
Happy to hack this in somehow, as its making my…
johnwards
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Linux GeoIP CLI app
I'm looking for a Linux CLI app that can accept a list of IP addresses and draw dots on the world map. All I want is to get an image file containing the world map and dots pointing to IP locations.
A webservice won't do it, because I might need to…
vtest
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How do I set up a GeoIP CName?
I'm looking for a way to set up my DNS so that global traffic hits different servers. At the moment, we have servers in one data-center and users from remote areas are complaining about slow speeds. So we'd like to set up servers closer to those…
None
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How can I access websites that block foreign IPs?
How can I access websites that blocks IPs that aren't from a given country?
It doesn't necessarily have to be free, as long as its secure and can't (easily) be sniffed (i.e. not those free php proxies but something reliable that won't be sniffed)
Ziv
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Is there a way to install GeoIP from source code on Mac OS X?
I want to install the MaxMind GeoIP C library, so that I can use GeoIP as part of Django. I’m working on Mac OS X.
I’ve downloaded GeoIP-1.4.8.tar.gz from here and run:
./configure
make
make check
make install
Without any problems. I’ve also…
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How to block all requests from some undesired countries just to one location (nginx)
I am using nginx and I have installed geoip-database-contrib package to block access to /wp-admin location from all countries except some preferred.
location /wp-admin {
if ($allowed_country = no) {
return 403;
}
}
It works fine when trying…
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What geolocation information can be gleaned from first 3 parts of the IP address?
I am working on a non-security related research project where we have a list of anonymized IP addresses with the last 3 digits (the last block) masked. The project is about tracking attention to the publicly available data online. The addresses come…
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Where in the world is 206.132.169.217?
I'm guessing some sort of location registration (at least specifying the country) is required for
any public numeric IP address and tried ARIN
since I believe this router is in Seattle. ARIN only showed me that the router belongs to a company in…
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Rerouting international traffic based on GeoIP
My home connection is slow internationally but fast locally. My private remote server is fast both locally and internationally, but it does not pay off to use it locally due to proxy/VPN overhead. Is it a feasible idea to reroute just the…
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How can I perform geoip-based routing on Ubuntu without kernel modules?
I have a container-based VPS (Ubuntu 22.04, kernel 4.4.0), and I want to add some geoip-based rules to its routing table.
Unfortunately, every tutorial I can find relies on xtables-addons, which requires a kernel module xt_geoip. I can't update…
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