GeoIP helps you to locate a computer’s geographic location by identifying that computer terminal’s IP address. It uses GeoIP database and understands API to pinpoint IP location to a city.

Furthermore, GeoIP is not as accurate as GPS and mobile technology, though no geolocation system delivers perfect accuracy.

geoiplookup is a command line utility that can be used to find the Country that an IP address or hostname originates from.

 

Download the source of GeoIP

# yum install geoip

 

# geoiplookup <ip address> 

example:

# geoiplookup 198.55.110.199

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