Geo::IP2Location
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This Perl modules provide fast lookup of country, region, city, latitude, longitude, ZIP code, time zone, ISP, domain name and connection type from IP address by using IP2Location database. This module uses a file based database available at IP2Location.com. This database simply contains IP blocks as keys, and other information such as country, region, city, latitude, longitude, ISP and domain name as values. It supports both IP address in IPv4 and IPv6.

This module can be used in many types of projects such as:

 1) select the geographically closest mirror
 2) analyze your web server logs to determine the countries of your visitors
 3) credit card fraud detection
 4) software export controls
 5) display native language and currency 
 6) prevent password sharing and abuse of service 
 7) geotargeting in advertisement

The database will be updated in monthly basis for the greater accuracy. Free sample DB1 database is available at /samples directory or download it from http://www.ip2location.com/developers.htm.

The complete database is available at http://www.ip2location.com under Premium subscription package.

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

DEPENDENCIES

The complete database is available at http://www.ip2location.com under subscription package.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2006 by IP2Location.com, support@ip2location.com

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.6 or,
at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.