From Changes:
1.27 September 8th 2005
- Fixed Autoloader/open issue (Alexander Vasiljev)
- Fixed compilation error in Perl 5.005 with semicolon
in GeoIP_database_info in IP.xs (Stephen Schulte)
- Added support for open_type (Frank Mather)
1.26 May 19th 2005
- Fixed segfault issue if non-resolvable domain name is
passed to region_by_addr or region_by_name
- Added support for GEOIP_INDEX_CACHE - which just caches
the most frequently accessed index portion of the database, resulting
in faster lookups than GEOIP_STANDARD, but less memory usage than
GEOIP_MEMORY_CACHE
Changes since 1.21:
- Updated test case, removed www.bundesregierung.de
- Geo::Mirror: fallback to using Geo::IP::PurePerl if Geo::IP
is not available
- Geo::Mirror: added support for mirror freshness
- Added support for Netspeed
- Fixed IP address in examples
This module a simple file-based database. This database simply contains IP
blocks as keys, and countries as values. The data contains all public IP
addresses and should be more complete and accurate than reverse complete
COMPLETE and accurate than reverse DNS lookups.
This module can be used to automatically select the geographically closest
mirror, or to analyze your web server logs to determine the countries of
your visitors.
