In order to allow geolocation lookups using the geoip_client.repy library, we have provided a GeoIP XML-RPC server for remote procedure call. While an instance of the server is running persistently at !http://geoipserver.poly.edu:12679 and !http://geoipserver2.poly.edu:12679, the server program is available at geoip_server/geoip_server.py.
$ python geoip_server.py /path/to/GeoIP.dat PORT
geoip_server.py requires the Python library pygeoip and a valid MaxMind geolocation database, such as GeoLite City. The command-line arguments to geoip_server.py are the path to the GeoIP.dat file and the port on which to host the server.
Log in to the appropriate GeoIP server machine and make sure you have the latest version of the pygeoip module installed. If not, install it
$ sudo pip install pygeoip
Now, run the program from the geoipserver account as follows:
$ screen -S geoipserver -d -m sh /home/geoipserver/start_geoip_service.sh
Once the server is up and running, you can connect to it using the geoip_client.repy function geoip_init_client(), passing in the address (!http://HOSTNAME:PORT) of the server.
Please refer to [browser:seattle/trunk/geoip_server/geoip_server.py the file itself] for further information.