Using GeoIP Functionality in Varnish

[MrBiTs]

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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..
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> 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.

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