Geo::Mirror(3pm)               User Contributed Perl Documentation               Geo::Mirror(3pm)



NAME
       Geo::Mirror - Find closest Mirror

SYNOPSIS
         use Geo::Mirror;

         my $gm = Geo::Mirror->new(mirror_file => '/path/to/mirrors.txt');

         my $mirror = $gm->closest_mirror_by_country('us', $freshness);       # $freshness optional, see description below
         my $mirror = $gm->closest_mirror_by_addr('24.24.24.24', $freshness); # $freshness optional, see description below

DESCRIPTION
       This module finds the closest mirror for an IP address.  It uses Geo::IP to identify the
       country that the IP address originated from.  If the country is not represented in the
       mirror list, then it finds the closest country using a latitude/longitude table.

       The mirror file should be a space separate list of URL, Country, and mirror freshness.
       The mirror freshness is optional and can be used by user request a mirror with a minimum
       freshness.

AUTHOR
       Copyright (c) 2004, MaxMind LLC, support AT maxmind.com

       All rights reserved.  This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
       it under the same terms as Perl itself.



perl v5.20.1                                2014-09-29                           Geo::Mirror(3pm)