lookup returns null when geoip-city.dat and geoip-city-names.dat copied about node-geoip

[bluesmoon]

what does the code of geoipTest.js look like?

what's the directory structure where you installed geoip-lite?

where did you copy the .dat files to?

what IP addresses are you trying with?

[parindam]

answers inline..

On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 9:34 PM, Philip Tellis <
[email protected]

wrote:

what does the code of geoipTest.js look like?

var geoip = require('geoip-lite');
var ip = "122.167.126.108";
var geo = geoip.lookup(ip);

console.log(geo);

what's the directory structure where you installed geoip-lite?

c:\server\node_modules\geoip-lite
c:\server\geoipTest.js

where did you copy the .dat files to?

c:\server\node_modules\geoip-lite\data

what IP addresses are you trying with?

"122.167.126.108"

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Thanks,
Arindam.

[bluesmoon]

can you try with the test script
server\node_modules\geoip-lite\test\geo-lookup.js

[bluesmoon]

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[cryptocompress]

i have same problem:

vagrant@lucid32:/myapp$ node node_modules/geoip-lite/test/geo-lookup.js 93.133.238.214
null
Startup: 8ms, exec: 1ms
vagrant@lucid32:/myapp$ rm node_modules/geoip-lite/data/geoip-city.dat node_modules/geoip-lite/data/geoip-city-names.dat
vagrant@lucid32:/myapp$ node node_modules/geoip-lite/test/geo-lookup.js 93.133.238.214

======================== Warning ========================
 City data not found, falling back to country data.
 Get the latest city data files from

 https://github.com/bluesmoon/node-geoip/tree/master/data

 You need geoip-city-names.dat and geoip-city.dat
 Put them into the data/ directory for this package
======================== Warning ========================


{ range: [ 1568636928, 1569193983 ],
  country: 'DE',
  region: '',
  city: '',
  ll: [ 0, 0 ] }
Startup: 10ms, exec: 3ms
vagrant@lucid32:/myapp$

any idea?

[bluesmoon]

Are you using the latest city data files? Get them from git. This is what I see:

$ node geo-lookup.js 93.133.238.214
{ range: [ 1569057280, 1569060607 ],
  country: 'DE',
  region: '02',
  city: 'Munich',
  ll: [ 48.15, 11.5833 ] }
Startup: 772ms, exec: 8ms

[cryptocompress]

vagrant@lucid32:~$ cd /myapp/
vagrant@lucid32:/myapp$ node node_modules/geoip-lite/test/geo-lookup.js 93.133.238.214

======================== Warning ========================
 City data not found, falling back to country data.
 Get the latest city data files from

 https://github.com/bluesmoon/node-geoip/tree/master/data

 You need geoip-city-names.dat and geoip-city.dat
 Put them into the data/ directory for this package
======================== Warning ========================


{ range: [ 1568636928, 1569193983 ],
  country: 'DE',
  region: '',
  city: '',
  ll: [ 0, 0 ] }
Startup: 10ms, exec: 3ms
vagrant@lucid32:/myapp$ cd node_modules/geoip-lite/data/ && wget https://github.com/bluesmoon/node-geoip/blob/master/data/geoip-city-names.dat && wget https://github.com/bluesmoon/node-geoip/blob/master/data/geoip-city.dat
--2012-07-22 19:45:53--  https://github.com/bluesmoon/node-geoip/blob/master/data/geoip-city-names.dat
Resolving github.com... 207.97.227.239
Connecting to github.com|207.97.227.239|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 31168 (30K) [text/html]
Saving to: `geoip-city-names.dat'

100%[=====================================================================================================================================>] 31,168      --.-K/s   in 0.1s

2012-07-22 19:45:59 (246 KB/s) - `geoip-city-names.dat' saved [31168/31168]

--2012-07-22 19:45:59--  https://github.com/bluesmoon/node-geoip/blob/master/data/geoip-city.dat
Resolving github.com... 207.97.227.239
Connecting to github.com|207.97.227.239|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 31073 (30K) [text/html]
Saving to: `geoip-city.dat'

100%[=====================================================================================================================================>] 31,073      --.-K/s   in 0.1s

2012-07-22 19:46:00 (253 KB/s) - `geoip-city.dat' saved [31073/31073]

vagrant@lucid32:/myapp/node_modules/geoip-lite/data$ node ../test/geo-lookup.js 93.133.238.214
null
Startup: 7ms, exec: 2ms
vagrant@lucid32:/myapp/node_modules/geoip-lite/data$

[bluesmoon]

I really can't say why this happens for you, but the fact that Startup time is 7ms suggests that it isn't really loading the data files. Is there any chance you can trace through the code and find out what's happening?

[thiagobfiorenza]

Hi,
Is the geoip-city.dat file you use from this place?
https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/legacy/geolite/#Downloads