On Jan 21, 2008 11:43 AM, Durick, JD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. snip
Just to clarify, Geo::IP is MaxMind's interface, the version on CPAN is setup to download their free db. You can see the differences between the versions on their website*. * http://www.maxmind.com/app/geoip_country -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
