one parameter missing from GeoIP data via FCGI

Igor Sysoev igor at sysoev.ru
Wed Aug 25 01:51:03 MSD 2010


On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:05:52AM -0400, Dean wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestion, Igor.  
> 
> I tried 5 IPs on the MaxMind site.  One of them had a postal code
> record--the rest were blank.  When using that IP with nginx/GeoIP, the
> postal code field was empty.  
> 
> Using the MaxMind website, the city and lat/long of the IP are reported
> differently from the same fields from the free MaxMind database used by
> the GeoIP module.   The MaxMind online lookup site states that the data
> is from their commercial product, as opposed to the free one that I'm
> using with nginx.  
> 
> So...it seems that the databases are somewhat different, and there may
> simply be no postal code data in the free database for the IPs that I'm
> testing with.

Could you tell the IP address which has a postal code on the MaxMind site ?


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