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hostip.info is a free GeoIP service. Unfortunately their webservice is slow and they are in the middle of a backend change (from 256 ip_X tables to one table listing all /24 nets…). However, their information is more exact than that of countries.nerd.dk.
To convert the data from hostip.info’s format into something remotely sane usable, you have to merge the ranges into CIDR-blocks per country. If you don’t do that, you’ll get a 160MiB result file which will take ages for ip2countryd to process. With proper optimization and merging, though, the resulting file is barely 4MiB in size and ip2countryd loads like a breeze.
- ip2countryd-r3.tgz 12KiB
Revision 3 of ip2countryd, minor changes, includes a script to convert hostip.info CSV dumps to rbldnsd format. - hostip-data.tgz 1.1MiB
The current dump from hostip.info in rbldnsd format, including the cached version.
The test service at udp://ubermutant.net:8000/ has been updated to r3 with the hostip.info db.
Now, for the rant. Continue reading “IP to country: ip2countryd using hostip.info data”