Geoiplookup is a geoiplookup replacement for the free GeoLite2-Country,
It currently only supports the free GeoLite2-Country database, and there is no planned support for the other types.
- Drop-in replacement for the now defunct
geoiplookup
utility - Works with the current Maxmind database format (mmdd)
- IPv4, IPv6 and fully qualified domain name (FQDN) support
- Options to return just the country iso (
US
) or country name (United States
), rather than the fullGeoIP Country Edition: US, United States
- Built-in database update support
- Built-in self updater (if new release is available)
Multiple OS/Architecture binaries are supplied with releases. Extract the binary, make it executable, and move it to a location such as /usr/local/bin
.
GeoipLookup comes with a built-in self-updater:
geoiplookup self-update
You must have golang installed. There is one external library required (oschwald/geoip2-golang) which is downloaded automatically when you run make
:
git clone [email protected]:warrengalyen/geoiplookup.git
cd geoiplookup
make
Usage: geoiplookup [-i] [-c] [-d <database directory>] <ipaddress|hostname|db-update|self-update>
Options:
-V show version number
-c return country name
-d string
database directory or file (default "/usr/share/GeoIP")
-h show help
-i return country iso code
-v verbose/debug output
Examples:
geoiplookup 8.8.8.8 Return the country ISO code and name
geoiplookup -d ~/GeoIP 8.8.8.8 Use a different database directory
geoiplookup -i 8.8.8.8 Return just the country ISO code
geoiplookup -c 8.8.8.8 Return just the country name
geoiplookup db-update Update the GeoLite2-Country database (do not run more than once a month)
geoiplookup self-update Update the GoIpLookup binary with the latest release