mikä tarkoitus on geoip:llä

[jr71]

Hei voisiko joku kertoa mikä ohjelma tuo geoip on. Ja mitä se tekee? voiko sen poistaa,  itse arvelen tuon olevan jokin  sortin ip paikannus systeemi?

[Thinkit]

Binary packages built by this source

geoip-bin: IP lookup command line tools that use the GeoIP library

     GeoIP is a C library that enables the user to find the country that any
     IP address or hostname originates from. It uses a file based database.
     .
     This database simply contains IP blocks as keys, and countries as values and
     it should be more complete and accurate than using reverse DNS lookups.
     .
     This package contains the command line utilities to resolve the IP numbers
     using the GeoIP library.

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/geoip/1.4.8+dfsg-1ubuntu1

t: Antti