Missing countries about geoip HOT 7 CLOSED

Pull requests are welcome, especially if they come with a URL pointing to the definitive ISO data.

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This is Ipaddress related to Nigeria. gem is not returning me proper country. Is this country data included in the gem ?
c = GeoIP.new('/Users/pranava.swaroop/projects/agriculture-akubra/vendor/GeoIP.dat').country('154.66.32.198')
=> #<struct GeoIP::Country request="154.66.32.198", ip="154.66.32.198", country_code=0, country_code2="--", country_code3="--", country_name="N/A", continent_code="--">

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Nigeria is included in the gem, which is up-to-date with the C API here:
https://github.com/maxmind/geoip-api-c/blob/master/libGeoIP/GeoIP.c#L202

However, country data for your IP address is coming from your database, which appears to be out of date. The address is up-to-date on maxmind.com's current online database. The free (legacy) Country database has Nigeria, and the legacy City database has Congo (the Cityv6 database has China!).

Bottom line: Buy a subscription and keep your database up-to-date.

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Revision: Looking up an IPv6 database using an IPV4 address does not work correctly (this explains the China lookup)

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Got the issue, GeoIP.dat that we were using is a old version. I updated it with new one. Thanks for the response 👍

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Hey @cjheath , I am using GeoIP.dat.gz in our app, What additional advantages do i get if i switch to subscription version. If the difference is huge between the existing free version and subscription version, i want to think about it. Did the subscription version includes all countries and have better accuracy ?

Please provide me price details as well. Thanks for your help.

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I don't work for Maxmind and have never personally bought a subscription (though clients have). They publish their prices and benefits, which I think includes finer detail in addition to staying current. Essentially you're paying them to continuously map the Internet as it changes.

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