On Sunday 23 January 2011 06:08:12 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > is there any tool/mechanism to locate a given URL or IP-address on the > globe automatically? > I mean: I feed the tool with an IP-address or an URL and it will > respond: France, Paris > > I dont mean a tool, whose output I have interpret. > > I want this for batch processing... > > Thank you very much in advance for any tool ;) > Bet regards, > mcc
Not sure if it exists yet, but you might want to start with the packages with "geoip" in the name: # eix geoip [I] dev-libs/geoip Available versions: 1.4.5 1.4.6{tbz2} {perl-geoipupdate} Installed versions: 1.4.6{tbz2}(08:20:04 12/06/10)(-perl-geoipupdate) Homepage: http://www.maxmind.com/geoip/api/c.shtml Description: easily lookup countries by IP addresses, even when Reverse DNS entries don't exist * dev-php5/pecl-geoip Available versions: ~1.0.7 ~1.0.7-r1 {php_targets_php5-2 php_targets_php5-3} Homepage: http://pecl.php.net/geoip Description: PHP extension to map IP address to geographic places * dev-python/geoip-python Available versions: 1.2.4 Homepage: http://www.maxmind.com/app/python Description: Python bindings for GeoIP * dev-ruby/net-geoip Available versions: 0.07 {ruby_targets_ruby18} Homepage: http://www.maxmind.com/app/ruby Description: Ruby bindings for the GeoIP library Found 4 matches. -- Joost