Setup Lookup Service

Installation

Install the python package first:

• https://github.com/CAIDA/pyipmeta#pre-requisites
• https://github.com/CAIDA/pyipmeta#install-pyipmeta

Install and start service:

sudo cp ipmeta.service /etc/systemd/system/
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable ipmeta
sudo systemctl start ipmeta

Example Usage

Python util code:

import logging

import requests


def get_location(ip):
    """get location of the IP address, returning latitude,longitude pair"""
    location = []
    country_code = ""
    try:
        response = requests.get("http://ipmeta.limbo.caida.org/iplookup/" + ip).json()
        if len(response) == 1:
            if "lat_long" in response[0]:
                location = response[0]["lat_long"]
            if "country_code" in response[0]:
                country_code = response[0]["country_code"]
    except Exception as e:
        logging.error("retrieving location for {} failed: {}".format(ip, e.message))
    finally:
        return location, country_code


if __name__ == '__main__':
    print(get_location("8.8.8.8"))