[thelist] Countries in web logs?

[Lindsay Evans]

Hi Erick,

> hi, does any one know how my "webalizer" knows that people connected from
> germany, italy, belgium etc? the only thing i see in my server logs are
> ip addresses, so how does the log analyzer calculate? by "reverse DNS"?

yep.

> if so, how can i do it in perl?

try this:

use Socket;
$str_iaddr = "207.46.230.219";
$iaddr = inet_aton($str_iaddr);
$name  = gethostbyaddr($iaddr, AF_INET);
print $str_iaddr. " = " . $name;

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