Re: ANN: IP-to-country lookup in Lua

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

On 21/01/2008 21:34, Duck wrote:
> A company called Webnet77 publishes a free IP-to-Country database which, 
> though less detailed than other free geolocation data such as that from 
> Maxmind, consists of a single CSV file that's currently under 6MB in size 
> (under 1MB to download as a .gz file). It's updated every 24 hours.

Interesting. I wonder why they put the country name, it is a quite 
redundant (as one could just use a secondary table, which could be 
localized) and it would reduce the download size (a bit).
I suppose it is too late, if softwares already rely on it.

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