IPFire Location

A powerful, free IP address location database

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IPFire_ Location is being used in firewalls or other threat detection software, load-balancers, online shops, websites, analytics & reporting tools and more to detect the originating country by IP address. We are proud that our software is faster than others by maintaining a smaller memory footprint which puts it first in performance.

Our daily updated database does not only have information about the originating country of all IPv6 and IPv4 addresses. It identifies the Autonomous System (AS) these IP addresses belong to, as well and more... libloc is the C/C++ library that fires our location services and runs on *nix, Mac OS X and more. Integration into existing software is very easy and bindings for languages like Python and Perl are available.

Threat Detection

Location information is crucial to identify where an attacker is coming from.
Analyze your traffic for malicious autonomous systems and block the straight away with IPFire.

Load-Balancing

Redirect your users to the nearest data center to given them a better user experience with faster websites and faster downloads.

Online Visitors

Comply with legal requirements and show visitors the correct information depending on the country they are visiting from.

Open Source

libloc is free software and relies on support from the community. You can support us by helping to improve our database or with your donation.

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