Well not depending on anyone

Greg K — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:39:00 +0000

Well not depending on anyone would require you to obtain a database that contains the information, and require you do frequent updates of the records.

Check out this for possibility this...
http://lists.arin.net/pipermail/policy/2002-April/000133.html

I'm going to be checking out this list more later as it has my curiosity up...

-Greg

Hmm, nice link. Although

greg — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:26:23 +0000

Hmm, nice link. Although what I want is the code that does that.
I could use their services, but I try to avoid using code that relies on other sites.

What if there is a loss in link between sites, their site is down, data loss etc
It's unlikely to happen if their site is well established, but I don;t like relying on it.

Thanks for the link though, I'll have a good nose round later at the freebies.

Check out some of the offers

Greg K — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:19:00 +0000

Check out some of the offers from this place, which I use to look things up on a one by one basis:

http://www.ip2location.com/130.101.206.49

For just basic country code, they offer a service of $50/year for that. I was looking under their free resources, and their IPv6 to country is free upon requesting, and you can convert ip4 (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) over to ipv6.

-Greg