Jeremy,

The later sounds like the easiest to implement. I'm reformatting my logs
now. 900 MB will take some time, to say the least :^)

As always, thanks for the great tips.

Bobby

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeremy Wadsack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 3:43 PM
Subject: Re: [analog-help] IP-to-country


> I can think of two ways to use the information. One would be to put
> the country code into an existing unused field (like the username
> field) and then use the User Report to get a break down by GeoIP-based
> country. Alternately, you could use the extra field as you have and
> write a log file format that assigns the value to %v and use the
> Virtual Host report to see the countries. You could modify the (analog
> or rmagic) language files if you want that report have a different
> name or description.
>
> The other solution would be to have your reformat program write the
> two-letter country code into the IP number field:
>
>     162.33.158.81 --> 162.33.158.81.us
>
> Then the Domain Report will show the break down by Geo-IP-based
> countries rather than hostname TLDs.
>
> -- 
>
> Jeremy Wadsack
> Wadsack-Allen Digital Group
>
>
> Bobby Hitt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wednesday, May 28, 2003 11:36 AM):
>
> > Hello all,
>
> > I wrote a small 'C' application that takes the standard apache log
files,
> > looks up the IP address using the geoip-lookup function:
>
> > 162.33.158.81 - - [12/May/2003:20:25:31 -0400] "GET /images/top.gif
> > HTTP/1.1" 200 1412 "http://www.washingtongolf.com/Taylor_Made.htm";
> > "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
>
> > and writes out as:
>
> > 162.33.158.81 "United States" - - [12/May/2003:20:25:31 -0400] "GET
> > /images/top.gif HTTP/1.1" 200 1412
> > "http://www.washingtongolf.com/Taylor_Made.htm"; "Mozilla/4.0
(compatible;
> > MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
>
> > geoip-lookup is part of the MaxMind geoip country PurePerl API that is
> > available here:
>
> > http://www.maxmind.com/download/geoip/api/perl/
>
> > The PurePerl version doesn't require the GEOIP 'C' library. Now if
someone
> > can figure out how to tell analog and rmagic to do something with this
> > format, please let me know :^)
>
> > Email me if you want the 'C' app, just compile with "gcc -o reformat
> > reformat.c". Execute as "reformat file-in file-out". file-in is your
regular
> > apache log file, with unresolved IP addresses. file-out adds the
country, if
> > found, "-" otherwise. A temp file, "country.txt" is created in the
current
> > directory to hold the output of geoip-lookup. I use the -l option to get
the
> > long country name, leave off if you just want the 2 letter code.
>
> > HTH,
>
> > Bobby
>
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Bobby Hitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 11:12 AM
> > Subject: Re: [analog-help] IP-to-country
>
>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Some more information. The country database is available for free from
> >> www.MaxMind.com, along with the API's for several different languages,
> >> including Perl, 'C', PHP and Ruby. As to how to incorporate this into
> >> analog, haven't a clue. But the tools and database are available.
> >>
> >> HTH,
> >>
> >> Bobby
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message ----- 
> >> From: "Jeremy Wadsack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 11:14 AM
> >> Subject: Re: [analog-help] IP-to-country
> >>
> >>
> >> >
> >> > Alexander Chirkov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tuesday, May 27, 2003 5:26 AM):
> >> >
> >> > > It would be great if I can use this DB in analog!
> >> > > http://ip-to-country.com/database/
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > There was significant discussion of geotargeting on the list
> >> > previously:
> >> >
> >> >
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg13905.html
> >> >
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg14373.html
> >> >
> >> > But (as mentioned in the second message above), little consensus as
to
> >> > which service to implement, and they do not provide a common
> >> > interface. The only way to do this currently would involve (a)
hacking
> >> > the code to generate a report for your specific GeoIP database, or
(b)
> >> > hijacking the Domain Report by changing the DNS lookups to match the
> >> > GeoIP values. There is even a DNS server you can use to do this
fairly
> >> > simply.
>
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