geoip-general — General Discussion of GeoIP

[Geoip-general] GeoIP-1.5.1 not compatible with ppc64le architecturer

[Madhu P. <km...@li...>]

Hi Mather,

We are in the process of adding support for new arch (ppc64le) and as 
part of that we wanted to send patches for config.guess and configure as 
appropriate.

GeoIP-1.5.1 could not be built on ppc64le because it had an outdated 
configure/config.guess/libtool.m4. Since your pkg uses libtool and the 
latest tarball of your pkg didn't build on ppc64le due to outdated 
libtool present on your system. We wanted to request you to upgrade your 
libtool to the alpha release of libtool which has all the bits and 
pieces needed for ppc64le support.

In that context, I wanted to confirm the below

1) Should we send patches to 'geo...@li...' 
mailing list or there is some other mailing list ?

2) New libtool alpha release which supports ppc64le arch is available, 
you may  pick up the alpha release from either of the below :

ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.4.2.418.tar.gz (1.6MB)

ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.4.2.418.tar.xz (920KB)

It would be great if you can install this new libtool which supports 
ppc64le, and spin the pkg and let us know the new tar availability. We 
can test it on ppc64le architecture for you. Please let me know if you 
are planning to release or spin newer version.

Currently I used
https://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/GeoIP/GeoIP-1.5.1.tar.gz/36b82f3558e6e2ebdd11a56c5db21dbc/GeoIP-1.5.1.tar.gz

Which does not have ppc64le support.

Your response is highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Madhu Pavan Kothapally

Re: [Geoip-general] GeoIP_db_avail segfault

[<tjm...@ma...>]

I have fixed this in the C API in SourceForce CVS, by calling
_GeoIP_setup_dbfilename
in GeoIP_db_avail - that way _GeoIP_setup_dbfilename (which
may change in future releases) doesn't have to be exposed to the
caller.

--- GeoIP.c     8 Feb 2007 23:33:14 -0000       1.66
+++ GeoIP.c     4 Apr 2007 05:31:22 -0000
@@ -242,6 +242,7 @@ int GeoIP_db_avail(int type) {
        if (type < 0 || type >= NUM_DB_TYPES) {
                return 0;
        }
+       _GeoIP_setup_dbfilename();
        filePath = GeoIPDBFileName[type];
        if (NULL == filePath) {
                return 0;

There isn't any documentation besides what is in the
source code and example files in the test/ directory.

-TJ

----- Original message -----
From: "Djihed Afifi" <dji...@go...>
To: tjm...@ma...
Cc: Geo...@li...
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:09:43 +0100
Subject: Re: [Geoip-general] GeoIP_db_avail segfault

That solved it, thank you. Shouldn't _GeoIP_setup_dbfilename be in
GeoIP.h ?

As I'm developing it I'm looking at GeoIP.h, is there another place for
documentation on developing against the C API?

Djihed


&#1601;&#1610; &#1606;&#1548; 02-04-2007 &#1593;&#1606;&#1583; 01:54
-0400 &#1548; &#1603;&#1578;&#1576; tjm...@ma...:
> I believe the segfault is due to the
> fact that GeoIPDBFileName is not initialized
> yet.  If you call _GeoIP_setup_dbfilename
> before calling GeoIP_db_avail, that should
> resolve the issue?
> 
> -TJ
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original message -----
> From: "Djihed Afifi" <dji...@go...>
> To: Geo...@li...
> Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 04:37:55 +0100
> Subject: [Geoip-general] GeoIP_db_avail segfault
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to update the Tcl extension for GeoIP [1], the latest code
> is available here
> http://svn.arablug.org/tclgeoip/
> 
> In particular, the generic/geoiptcl.c file.
> 
> I'm trying to resolve an issue I have had for long with
> GeoIP_db_avail. The function segfaults if called first before opening
> a database. It doesn't segfault if I load a database first, then call
> it.
> 
> Is this a known issue? any pointers?
> 
> I can supply memory dump/valgrind output if needed.
> 
> Djihed
> 
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Re: [Geoip-general] GeoIP_db_avail segfault

[Djihed A. <dji...@go...>]

That solved it, thank you. Shouldn't _GeoIP_setup_dbfilename be in
GeoIP.h ?

As I'm developing it I'm looking at GeoIP.h, is there another place for
documentation on developing against the C API?

Djihed


في ن، 02-04-2007 عند 01:54 -0400 ، كتب tjm...@ma...:
> I believe the segfault is due to the
> fact that GeoIPDBFileName is not initialized
> yet.  If you call _GeoIP_setup_dbfilename
> before calling GeoIP_db_avail, that should
> resolve the issue?
> 
> -TJ
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original message -----
> From: "Djihed Afifi" <dji...@go...>
> To: Geo...@li...
> Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 04:37:55 +0100
> Subject: [Geoip-general] GeoIP_db_avail segfault
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to update the Tcl extension for GeoIP [1], the latest code
> is available here
> http://svn.arablug.org/tclgeoip/
> 
> In particular, the generic/geoiptcl.c file.
> 
> I'm trying to resolve an issue I have had for long with
> GeoIP_db_avail. The function segfaults if called first before opening
> a database. It doesn't segfault if I load a database first, then call
> it.
> 
> Is this a known issue? any pointers?
> 
> I can supply memory dump/valgrind output if needed.
> 
> Djihed
> 
> [1] http://www.maxmind.com/app/tcl
> 
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Re: [Geoip-general] GeoIP_db_avail segfault

[<tjm...@ma...>]

I believe the segfault is due to the
fact that GeoIPDBFileName is not initialized
yet.  If you call _GeoIP_setup_dbfilename
before calling GeoIP_db_avail, that should
resolve the issue?

-TJ



----- Original message -----
From: "Djihed Afifi" <dji...@go...>
To: Geo...@li...
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 04:37:55 +0100
Subject: [Geoip-general] GeoIP_db_avail segfault

Hi,

I'm trying to update the Tcl extension for GeoIP [1], the latest code
is available here
http://svn.arablug.org/tclgeoip/

In particular, the generic/geoiptcl.c file.

I'm trying to resolve an issue I have had for long with
GeoIP_db_avail. The function segfaults if called first before opening
a database. It doesn't segfault if I load a database first, then call
it.

Is this a known issue? any pointers?

I can supply memory dump/valgrind output if needed.

Djihed

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[Geoip-general] GeoIP_db_avail segfault

[Djihed A. <dji...@go...>]

Hi,

I'm trying to update the Tcl extension for GeoIP [1], the latest code
is available here
http://svn.arablug.org/tclgeoip/

In particular, the generic/geoiptcl.c file.

I'm trying to resolve an issue I have had for long with
GeoIP_db_avail. The function segfaults if called first before opening
a database. It doesn't segfault if I load a database first, then call
it.

Is this a known issue? any pointers?

I can supply memory dump/valgrind output if needed.

Djihed

[1] http://www.maxmind.com/app/tcl

Re: [Geoip-general] Repost Question about the asn database

[Alexander L. <al-...@no...>]

On Mit 04.10.2006 15:18, Thomas J Mather wrote:
>
>On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 20:34:16 +0200, "Alexander Lazic" <al-...@no...>
>said:
>> 
>> Thanks would it be also updated such as the other datafiles?!
>
>GeoIP ASNum should be updated more frequently in the future, probably
>at least once every three months.  Feel free to e-mail me directly if
>you don't see the updates.

Ok thanks ;-)

Regards

Alex

Re: [Geoip-general] Repost Question about the asn database

[Thomas J M. <tjm...@ma...>]

On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 20:34:16 +0200, "Alexander Lazic" <al-...@no...>
said:
> 
> Thanks would it be also updated such as the other datafiles?!

GeoIP ASNum should be updated more frequently in the future, probably
at least once every three months.  Feel free to e-mail me directly if
you don't see the updates.

-TJ

Re: [Geoip-general] Repost Question about the asn database

[Alexander L. <al-...@no...>]

On Mit 04.10.2006 13:46, Thomas J Mather wrote:
>Sorry for the delayed response.

Hey better then never ;-)

>The database was updated yesterday,
>so if you check now, GeoIPASNum.dat.gz should
>be from this month.

Thanks would it be also updated such as the other datafiles?!

Regards

Alex

Re: [Geoip-general] Repost Question about the asn database

[Thomas J M. <tjm...@ma...>]

Sorry for the delayed response.
The database was updated yesterday,
so if you check now, GeoIPASNum.dat.gz should
be from this month.

-TJ

----- Original message -----
From: "Alexander Lazic" <al-...@no...>
To: geo...@li...
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 19:41:28 +0200
Subject: [Geoip-general] Repost  Question about the asn database

Hi,

i wanted to get the current ASN-DB from

http://www.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/asnum/

but it looks a little bit outdated to me.

GeoIPASNum.dat.gz       12-Sep-2005 11:56   875k  

Is there a updated version available or necessary?

I came from this site to the ASN-DB link ;-)

http://www.maxmind.com/app/asnum

Regards

Alex

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[Geoip-general] Repost Question about the asn database

[Alexander L. <al-...@no...>]

Hi,

i wanted to get the current ASN-DB from

http://www.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/asnum/

but it looks a little bit outdated to me.

GeoIPASNum.dat.gz       12-Sep-2005 11:56   875k  

Is there a updated version available or necessary?

I came from this site to the ASN-DB link ;-)

http://www.maxmind.com/app/asnum

Regards

Alex

Re: [Geoip-general] GeoIP COM win2k question

[Thomas J M. <tjm...@ma...>]

Did you try country_code_by_addr?
I think that should return by IP address.
Also "country_code_by_name" should work
with IP addresses as well as domain names.

-TJ

----- Original message -----
From: "Ken" <ang...@gm...>
To: geo...@li...
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:53:46 -0400
Subject: [Geoip-general] GeoIP COM win2k question

Hello,
I've just install the dll on my win2k box.
I see in the example the option for "country_code_by_name", which is
working
fine.
but is there an option for getting the country code by ip address? I
have
not been able to find this no the site.
any help would be great!

thanks in advance for your time!
-Ken

[Geoip-general] GeoIP COM win2k question

[Ken <ang...@gm...>]

Hello,
I've just install the dll on my win2k box.
I see in the example the option for "country_code_by_name", which is working
fine.
but is there an option for getting the country code by ip address? I have
not been able to find this no the site.
any help would be great!

thanks in advance for your time!
-Ken

[Geoip-general] Question about the asn database

[Alexander L. <al-...@no...>]

Hi,

i wanted to get the current ASN-DB from

http://www.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/asnum/

but it looks a little bit outdated to me.

GeoIPASNum.dat.gz       12-Sep-2005 11:56   875k  

Is there a updated version available or necessary?

I came from this site to the ASN-DB link ;-)

http://www.maxmind.com/app/asnum

Regards

Alex

[Geoip-general] Attaching degree of error to geolocation

[Thomas J M. <tjm...@ma...>]

The purpose of this message is to publish in a public forum a method of
attaching a degree of error to the estimated location of an IP address.

The geolocation database estimates the country, state or region, city,
postal code, latitude and longitude of an IP address.  Attached to this
is an estimate of distance between the actual location and the estimated
location based on the geolocation database entry for a specified IP
address.  The idea is that if you take any subset of the database, then
take the average of the distance between the actual location and
estimated locations based on IP address, this average should match the
estimate of distance also known as degree of error.

-TJ

[Geoip-general] Installing GeopIP on win2k and setting up for use with python

[Richard E. <ric...@yo...>]

Hi,

Does someone have step by step instructions on how to install GeoIP with the
python api?

I'm not very familiar with compiling/building stuff with MS visual 6.0 and
have basically spent 2 days getting nowhere.
Have tried using info I have found on the net to work my way thru it but
keep on getting errors as well as confused.

Have tried creating a project using "Windows application" and "windows
console application", followed the win install help by adding lib links to
the project and adding the directories links for include and lib files. Have
also downloaded the zlib and unzipped into the same folder as GeoIP.
Try compiling/building and end up with the following errors...

#####
Compiling...
GeoIP.c
c:\program files\geoip\libgeoip\geoip.c(529) : warning C4018: '==' :
signed/unsigned mismatch
Linking...
GeoIP.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _gethostbyname@4
LIBCD.lib(crt0.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _main
Debug/geoip_con.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 2 unresolved externals
Error executing link.exe.

geoip_con.exe - 3 error(s), 1 warning(s)
#####

Any pointers at how to do this, and what I should be ending up with,  would
be great.
Is there specific places the downloaded GeoIP folder and dat file should be
installed otherwise it wont work?

Thank you in advance,

Richard

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Re: [Geoip-general] Tool for making maps

[Lee G. <ho...@Le...>]

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Something like that: Image::Maps::Plot::FromLatLong and
Image::Maps::Plot::FromPostcode.

lee

JM> Hi all.

JM> I am one of the lead developers on a mapping toolkit, yesterday I started
JM> playing with GeoIP in the hope that I would be able to produce maps from it.

JM> I thought people might be interested in seeing the first results of my
JM> experiments, you can see some samples at:
JM> http://www.geotools.org/visitors.html

JM> The maps show the visitors from the past hour to the geotools.org web site.

JM> I should perhaps have posted this to the Java specific list as that is the
JM> api that I used to do this, but I thought the ability to make maps would be
JM> generically interesting to people.

JM> The tool I produced is quite easy to use, you pass it a list of IPs, colors
JM> and intervals and it produces an image of the size and format that you want.

JM> It could do with a bit of tidying up, but I don't have much spare time to
JM> work on it but if anyone is interested in having maps on their site I'd be
JM> happy to help them get off the ground with the toolkit.

JM> All the best

JM> James



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[Geoip-general] Tool for making maps

[James M. <jma...@ps...>]

Hi all.

I am one of the lead developers on a mapping toolkit, yesterday I started 
playing with GeoIP in the hope that I would be able to produce maps from it.

I thought people might be interested in seeing the first results of my 
experiments, you can see some samples at:
http://www.geotools.org/visitors.html

The maps show the visitors from the past hour to the geotools.org web site.

I should perhaps have posted this to the Java specific list as that is the 
api that I used to do this, but I thought the ability to make maps would be 
generically interesting to people.

The tool I produced is quite easy to use, you pass it a list of IPs, colors 
and intervals and it produces an image of the size and format that you want.

It could do with a bit of tidying up, but I don't have much spare time to 
work on it but if anyone is interested in having maps on their site I'd be 
happy to help them get off the ground with the toolkit.

All the best

James

[Geoip-general] Adding country

[Dusan <du...@sl...>]

Hello, I hope I'm writing to right adress.

I'm asking you what are possibilites to put additional country - =
Republic of Srpska - in your free base (or in others).
Curently visitors from there are shown as they are from Bosnia, or =
Yugoslavia - it differs from ISP.
RS is state-entity constitued by Daytons (OH) peace agreement, 1995, on =
Balkans. Politicaly, it is country with limited sovereignity. It has its =
own military, police, parliament, judgement, government, education, =
academic network etc.

I can provide you with a list of ip ranges and all aditional information =
about that.

I'm asking you because I'm using awstats+geoip option for my hosting =
clients. There are many visitors from Balkans, but they are not reported =
correctly, as I noted in example above. I know many other people who =
also want to have correct country-territory visitors statistics, =
including isps etc.

Thanks.
- d.

Re: [Geoip-general] Perl - Geo IP Record - errors

[TJ M. <tjm...@ma...>]

Hi,

Which API are you using?

Are you using the GeoIP City database?

Regards,
TJ

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> 
> Thanks
> lee
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[Geoip-general] Perl - Geo IP Record - errors

[Lee G. <ho...@Le...>]

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I get seemingly random info from the latitude and
longitude methods - is it just me?

I can give more info if this is the place to ask,
but the archives are empty.....

Thanks
lee

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[Geoip-general] Using Geolocation to prevent credit card fraud

[TJ M. <tjm...@ma...>]

The purpose of the e-mail is to publish in a public forum a method of 
preventing credit card fraud using Geolocation, anonymous proxy, e-mail 
domain, and bank identification number databases.

The method rates possible credit card transactions on the likelihood that 
they are fraudulent.  It takes the following as inputs:

    # Client IP Address
    # Billing City/State/ZipCode/Country
    # Bank Identification Number (first 4-6 numbers of credit card number)
    # E-mail domain (e.g. hotmail.com, aol.com) 

And outputs:

    # IP Address Location
    # Distance from IP address to Billing Location
    # Whether e-mail is from free e-mail provider
    # Whether IP address is Anonymous Proxy
    # Whether IP address country matches Billing country
    # Credit Card Issuing Bank Country
    # Whether IP address country matches bank country
    # Overall Fraud Score based on above outputs

It uses a database of IP address to city mappings, a database of free
e-mail domains, a database of bank identification number locations, and a 
database of anonymous proxies.

-TJ

P.S. The purpose of this e-mail is to release this idea into the public 
domain, provide prior art, and to protect anybody who implements this
service from patent infringement suits.  In other words, an "Anti-Patent".