# The net/GeoIP port

## GeoIP-1.6.2 – find the country where IP address/hostname originates from

## Description

    GeoIP includes a C library and command-line tools to look up information in
    MaxMind's IP geolocation databases.

    The distributed package includes a snapshot of the free GeoLite country-level
    databases under CC BY-SA 3.0 license, "This product includes GeoLite data
    created by MaxMind, available from http://www.maxmind.com."

    Free-of-charge city and AS number databases and updated country databases are
    available from http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/legacy/geolite/, commercial
    databases and automatic update services from http://www.maxmind.com/.

WWW: http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/legacy/downloadable/

Categories:
  geo net

## Library dependencies

## Build dependencies

- archivers/bzip2

## Run dependencies