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mmdblookup(1) General Commands Manual mmdblookup(1)

mmdblookup - a utility to look up an IP address in a MaxMind DB file

mmdblookup --file [FILE PATH] --ip [IP ADDRESS] [DATA PATH]

mmdblookup looks up an IP address in the specified MaxMind DB file. The record for the IP address is displayed in a JSON-like structure with type annotations.

If an IP's data entry resolves to a map or array, you can provide a lookup path to only show part of that data.

For example, given a JSON structure like this:

{


    "names": {


        "en": "Germany",


        "de": "Deutschland"


    },


    "cities": [ "Berlin", "Frankfurt" ]
}

You could look up just the English name by calling mmdblookup with a lookup path of:

mmdblookup --file ... --ip ... names en

Or you could look up the second city in the list with:

mmdblookup --file ... --ip ... cities 1

Array numbering begins with zero (0).

If you do not provide a path to lookup, all of the information for a given IP will be shown.

This application accepts the following options:

The path to the MMDB file. Required.
The IP address to look up. Required.
Turns on verbose output. Specifically, this causes this application to output the database metadata.
Print the program's version number and exit.
Show usage information.

Please report all issues to our GitHub issue tracker (https://github.com/maxmind/libmaxminddb/issues). We welcome bug reports and pull requests. Please note that pull requests are greatly preferred over patches.

This utility was written by Boris Zentner (bzentner@maxmind.com) and Dave Rolsky (drolsky@maxmind.com).

Copyright 2013-2022 MaxMind, Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

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