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I've used http://www.maxmind.com/ http://www.maxmind.com/ They have a free older database of IPs you can download (usually a month out of date - -but good enoug

• sanj 19y ago
  I believe the free version doesn't go 'inside' ISPs' subnets like the pay version does. That's pretty limiting.
  • axod 19y ago
    Depends. Quite often you just need the country and that's enough.
• omakase 19y ago
  I've been quite happy wit hteh geolite city database: http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecity http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecity updating monthly is a bit of a pain, but no real complaints. i'd recommend using mod_geoip since it's written in c also I use the binary format of the database as recommended by maxmind, but one cool thing i was able to do with the the csv version was import it into my db and then use sphinx to build a full text searchable index of worldwide cities