John Rudd wrote:
> I know there used to be a nice convenient set of RBL's based upon
> countries, such that you could easily track an IP address back to
> which country it came from.  But, IIRC, that RBL went under.
> 
> 1) Does anyone know of a convenient command line tool (perl library
> being ideal) that lets you give it an IP address, and it tells you the
> country and/or continent (and that's it)?
> 
> 2) similarly, does anyone know of a command line tool where you can
> give it a country and/or continent, and it will generate concise IP
> addresses ranges (like A.B.C.D-E.F.G.H) that have been allocated to
> that country/continent? (and by "concise", I mean compacted into as
> few range statements as possible, to minimize the number of lines)
> 
> (it's only slightly OT, because I plan to use this for fighting some
> internal spam problems we've been having; but it wouldn't be part of
> our spam assassin infrastructure)

You might start your search here:

http://software77.net/cgi-bin/ip-country/geo-ip.pl

Bill

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