In addition to GeoIP offered by CPAN, if your company/university is paying for it, you might want to take a look at a commercial db called MaxMind (www.maxmind.com) which offers a static geolocater database complete with various APIs, one being perl. I believe akamai has another but that one is quite expensive but does offer a web services functionality the others don't and is updated quite frequently and more accurate.
jd >-----Original Message----- >From: Chas. Owens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 10:56 AM >To: pallav >Cc: beginners@perl.org >Subject: Re: Perl script to lookup IP addresses > >On Jan 21, 2008 2:38 AM, pallav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have some research tools that I make available for download. When a >> person downloads it, I record the IP address. >> >> I wanted to know if perl has some functions/utilities where I can >> supply these IP address to get an approximate location of the IP >> address. Most of the downloads are usually from researchers across >> different universities. >> I just want to know, if possible, the names of these universities/ >> organization. Is it possible in perl to get this information through >> one of the existing modules? >> >> Thanks for any help. >snip > >The term for that is geolocation. Take a look at Geo::IP*. > >* http://search.cpan.org/dist/Geo-IP/lib/Geo/IP.pm > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://learn.perl.org/ > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
