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Archive for January, 2010

25 Jan

Command line geolocation

A comment in a Slashdot article lead me to iploc.org, specifically Country names zone which lets you get the country for a given IP address over DNS.
I wrapped it in a bash function… throw this at the end of your .bashrc:
geo() { dig +short TXT `echo $1 | \
awk -F. ‘{print $4″.”$3″.”$2″.”$1″.cc.iploc.org”}’`;}
and you can [...]

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