This module a simple file-based database.  This database simply contains
IP blocks as keys, and countries as values.  The data contains all
public IP addresses and should be more
complete and accurate than reverse DNS lookups.

This module can be used to automatically select the geographically closest mirror,
or to target advertising by country, or to analyze your web server logs
to determine the countries of your visiters.

To install, see the INSTALL file.

To find a country for an IP address, this module uses the database
contained in /usr/local/geoip/Geo-IP.dat to find a Network
that contains the IP address.

The database will be updated at the beginning of each month.  To update,
follow the instructions in the INSTALL file.

Ideally we would have a script to run updates.  Patches welcome!

Copyright (c) 2002, T.J. Mather, tjmather@tjmather.com

All rights reserved.  This package is free software; you can redistribute it
and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.