blackswanburst / classify6

An command line tool (written in OCAML) to classify IPv6 addresses, and provide a bit of further information.

classify6

An OCAML command line tool to classify IPv6 addresses, and provide a bit of further information.

Easy deployment options for testers:

apt-get install ocaml git-core git clone https://github.com/blackswanburst/classify6.git cd classify6

To compile for bytecode for usage with ocamlrun: ocamlbuild Classify6.byte or to compile natively: ocamlbuild Classify6.native

How could you help?

Review the IPv6 assisgments with your expertise, and test the code. Report bugs, find better modes of deployment, propose features, and give feedback.

Thanks to Yvann Janssens and Ehab Hussein, for useful feedback. Thanks to the Real World OCAML authors for sparking the interest.

classify6's Issues

Classify6 handles multiple abbreviations poorly.

./classify6 -a ::1::1
0000:0001:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0001 is from an IETF Reserved /8 for unspecified addresses.
(RFC 4291)