The packages geoip-database in Debian relies
on static databases which are no longer being updated.
All I need from this is a quick way on the shell to look up
a country from an IP.
On Debian I could do that with geoiplookup
or use a small perl script using Geo::IP
These tools still work, but the accuracy is drifting off over time.
but I can't be the only one looking into this issue. Surely someone has
figured out something to do this well that gets that good ol' 1000 eyeballs treatment.
Has anyone encountered something like Geo::IP which will work against
the other free resources? Or has anyone encountered a solution
which will work against the new GeoIP databases available by subscription
from Maxmind, the previous supplier of the free GeoLite DB?
Something like this done in a script would work:
It is limited to 10,000 lookups per hour and it is much slower than
working against a local DB file.
Is there something better?