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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/local/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>