Yeah, there are several commercial ones out there (add NetAcuity to the list) but I'm not personally aware of any others that provide a free, very usable database and API, and MaxMind covers the same ground. I think the commercial (read: non-OSS) houses will have a hard time convincing anyone to support their products for them, especially with no documented APIs. :-/ -- kb
On Mar 16, 2010, at 2:08 PM, MrBiTs wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 03/16/2010 06:00 PM, Ken Brownfield wrote: >> MaxMind has several different databases; the database that is the only one >> supported by most GeoIP "plugins" is Country, which can only map an IP to a >> country. The City edition can map IPs to cities, zip codes, >> latitude/longitude, etc.. >> >> The plugin you mention does require the City edition, but MaxMind has a >> free, less accurate GeoLite City DB. The City DB will provide country as >> well as the finer granularity, so for your purposes (country only) it's fine. >> >> I do like the custom header idea, mainly because you can potentially pass >> the header to a backend for possible processing, but also because the >> conditionals are easier in VCL. >> >> There are a lot of cool things you can do with the City DB beyond static >> mappings (see bind-geoip on Google Code) that would be cool to see in >> cosimo/varnish-geoip. > > Hi, all > > I know other great Geo database player called Quova (http://www.quova.com) > with lots of geo databases focused not only in Country, > City, State or Province but Bandwidth, Zip, Area Code. We used it with great > success at 24/7 RealMedia's Open AdStream and its > database is highly customizable and I easy to access. > > Maybe could be another solution, and Varnish Software could keep contact with > Quova people to think about a great module. > > - -- > > CheerS > > .0. MrBiTs - [email protected] > ..0 GnuPG - > http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x6EC818FC2B3CA5AB > 000 http://www.mrbits.com.br > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJLn/NpAAoJEG7IGPwrPKWr2RQIAIVvGsTPEWQhf0yVo9JHElH1 > 54+lt8y5q7RDCWS0WKqlWcXQIRJ4gpTp39qnUk0FwL+6qc//MEyYvQK1bvMwe42f > m4SRItE07kPV5+SoNfR4LZPiK2/EI/SlWaBKGcTeYYPP4ysxZ3Gzf9SR8PDRPGYP > hMfljzX8A/bi4GeRH3Qzc3eALV5Xsvr7IPdOgStWkOQxG3+Ydp+KTs+nVmUpBhg+ > fx5IndKOmbIUTHDTS+43Uq9Jyn12valSx8F3XBV3xb1/qsmeTI/9k4yXnrH583ZO > 3SXXyGwpTxliT789+2ecKoYYExUSe69KkPQhlw75JRvujQRHQoEl5uxxynicTus= > =IYkp > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list [email protected] http://lists.varnish-cache.org/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
