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GeoIP is a C library that enables the user to find the country that any IP
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address or hostname originates from. It uses a file based database that is
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accurate as of September 2005. This database simply contains IP blocks as keys,
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and countries as values. It should be more complete and accurate than using
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reverse DNS lookups.
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This module can be used to automatically select the geographically closest
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mirror, to analyze your web server logs to determine the countries of your
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visitors, for credit card fraud detection, and for software export controls.
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