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GeoIP

Library for country/city/organization to IP address or hostname mapping

Description

GeoIP is a C library that enables the user to find the country that any IP
address or hostname originates from.

It uses file based databases that can optionally be updated on a weekly basis
by installing the geoipupdate-cron (IPv4) and/or geoipupdate-cron6 (IPv6)
packages.
Website: http://www.maxmind.com/app/c
License: LGPLv2+
Vendor: Fedora Project
Group: development/libraries

Packages

GeoIP-1.6.5-1.el6.x86_64 [112 KiB] Changelog by Paul Howarth (2015-03-02): 
- Update to 1.6.5
  - Fixed a segmentation fault in geoiplookup when the utility was passed an
    invalid database (#1180874)
  - Additional validation was added for the size used in the creation of the
    index cache (#832913)
  - Changed the code to only look up country codes by using functions that
    ensure that we do not try to look past the end of an array (GitHub #53)