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| author | Yen-Ming Lee <leeym@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-08-15 13:34:10 +0000 |
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| committer | Yen-Ming Lee <leeym@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-08-15 13:34:10 +0000 |
| commit | 521432de4f8a147ff5b3ca9e97d825607a42e314 (patch) | |
| tree | bd37d9e5e19d4db5b517de17a5b007891454b24e /net/GeoIP/pkg-descr | |
| parent | 47a4e24d512f397265e26b6f271ee1996380d8e9 (diff) | |
new port: misc/GeoIP
GeoIP is a C library that enables the user to find the country that any
IP address or hostname originates from.
PR: ports/41536
Submitted by: Yen-Ming Lee <leeym@utopia.leeym.com>
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=64539
Diffstat (limited to 'net/GeoIP/pkg-descr')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/GeoIP/pkg-descr | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/GeoIP/pkg-descr b/net/GeoIP/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..9dcae6ca2c7c --- /dev/null +++ b/net/GeoIP/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +GeoIP is a C library that enables the user to find the country that any +IP address or hostname originates from. It uses a file based database +that is accurate as of March 2002. This database simply contains IP blocks +as keys, and countries as values. This database should be more complete and +accurate than using reverse DNS lookups. + +This module can be used to automatically select the geographically closest +mirror, to analyze your web server logs to determine the countries of your +visitors, for credit card fraud detection, and for software export controls. + +WWW: http://maxmind.com/geoip/ |