I have added 'REMOTE_ADDR' to store in my database to show who is looking at each part in my online store. But what a really want to see is the country that the remote IP has come from. Do you know of any where I can get country information from via a remote IP address by using something like a url lookup or a database of IP ranges?

Thanks,
Vern

Ownership of the IP address can be determined by checking with the appropriate Registry, which I've listed here:

American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
Homepage: http://www.arin.net
WhoIs: http://www.arin.net/whois/index.html

Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC)
Homepage: http://www.apnic.net
WhoIs: http://www.apnic.net/apnic-bin/whois.pl

APNIC serves the entire Asia Pacific region, comprising sixty-two economies in Asia and Oceania.

Latin American and Caribbean IP address Regional Registry (LACNIC)
Homepage: http://www.lacnic.net
WhoIs: http://lacnic.net/sp/

LACNIC's goals are to represent and promote the region's points of view and support Internet growth. Additionally, LACNIC promotes Internet-related educational opportunities and public policies.

RIPE Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC)
Homepage: http://www.ripe.net/
WhoIs: http://www.ripe.net/db/whois/whois.html

The RIPE NCC performs activities primarily for the benefit of the membership in Europe, the Middle East, northern Africa, and parts of Asia

Thanks.

You might want to look at this; http://ip-to-country.webhosting.info/

That's easily the most useful website I've seen in the last month. And with the number I see on a daily basis, that's a true compliment.

Thanks!

Hello Jamie, you might wanna take a look at this ip address lookul tool http://www.ipgp.net. I think it is even better because you have a Google Map as well for most of the queries.

You could also check out this post http://andyjarrett.co.uk/andy/blog/index.cfm/2008/9/13/geo-based-IP-lookup-with-ColdFusion which details how to use a web service to pull information about an IP in ColdFusion.

Why would I want to see a real world map? It's not like I ever leave my desk.

Every method I've seen that did not require server-enabled reverse-DNS used a component. I've never seen a script version of Reverse-DNS.

I have seen log parsers that did the DNS lookup as the log file was analyzed, and I suppose Chad could do the same thing in v2.0 if he chooses to implement a log table that is parsed to the information table summaries (much as you have done in your small-DB version), but he (or we) might need to find a script-only version of reverse-DNS lookup [my but isn't this an impressively-long sentance].

I think you might need to be in the hit-per-second category to notice server performance degradation, but with 470 other user, I'm sure you beat that by a long stretch. you can chk the ip address from http://www.ip-details.com/