RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Perl script question

["Ross, Matt" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

This was in conjunction with a webalizer report that someone else is
running.  Not being the one to run it myself, I assumed our guy knew what he
was doing, and would have captured those results if he could..  After
reading this, I downloaded it myself and found out I was wrong.  Thanks for
the info.  Now to figure out why he shut it off..

> > You could do a dns lookup on the address, then spit out the 
> tld from the
> > name.  That's how webalizer does it.
> 
> nslookup will often fail to give you any answer.  When it does give an
> answer, you can't always tell which country the machine is 
> in.  I don't
> know if there's any way around that though, when you want a 
> script to do
> the work.  By hand, I use arin:
> 
> whois -h whois.arin.net  xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> 
> But that often leads to RIPE or to APNIC.  I think you can 
> use this list
> to decide how to do a whois lookup:
> 
> http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space
> 
> (ripe, apnic, arin, etc.), but I don't know how to just take 
> the country
> from the list.
> 
> So it would be hard to do it really well.  Anyway, the 
> original answer was
> pretty good.  Use nslookup, but you'll have a lot of visitors 
> who can't be
> assigned to a country.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> > On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 05:24:39PM -0500, Ross, Matt wrote:
> > > Is there a simple way to take an IP address in perl and 
> spit out what
> > > country it came from?
> > >
> > > I'm trying to make a log report list by countries visiting.
> 
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