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 uses the database in "/usr/local/share/GeoIP/Geo-IP.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>