NAME

geoip-lookup - lookup country for IP address or hostname

SYNOPSIS

 geoip-lookup [-l] <ipaddress|hostname>

DESCRIPTION

The geoip-lookup program will return the country for the IP address or hostname given as the first command line argument. It queries the GeoIP Country database in "/usr/share/GeoIP/GeoIP.dat".

By default it prints the ISO 3166 country code. Use the "-l" option to print the country name.

EXAMPLE

Lookup up country for IP address 24.24.24.24

 # geoip-lookup 24.24.24.24
 United States

AUTHOR

T.J. Mather <tjmather@maxmind.com>