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Finding the home country of a client using only the IP address can be
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difficult. Looking up the domain name associated with that address can
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provide some help, but many IP address are not reverse mapped to any
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useful domain, and the most common domain (.com) offers no help when
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looking for country.
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This perl module comes bundled with a database of countries where various
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IP addresses have been assigned. Although the country of assignment will
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probably be the country associated with a large ISP rather than the
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client herself, this is probably good enough for most log analysis
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applications, and under test has proved to be as accurate as reverse-DNS
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and WHOIS lookup.
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