rinetd / rir

Regional Internet Registry (RIR) file parser & CLI in Go

RIR files explorer

Go (golang) package to parse RIR files with command line utility

RIR stands for Regional Internet Registry. RIR files are used to exchange statistics around asn, ipv4 & ipv6. For more details on RIR files see here

Install

1. Install Go beforehand
2. Run go get github.com/simcap/rir

You should now have an executable rir in your path

Test

Run go test -v

Command line usage

Get the basic usage

$ rir
Usage of ./rir:
  -c="": 2 letters string of the country (ISO 3166)
  -n=false: given country return possible hosts count (exclude network and broadcast addresses)
  -q="": ip address to which to resolve country

Explore ip blocks given a country

$ rir -c FR
2.0.0.0/12
5.10.128.0/21
...
213.108.232.0/21
213.111.0.0/18
217.77.224.0/20

Get the country and IP net for an given IP

$ rir -q 194.146.24.104
FR 194.146.24.0/23

Get the number of possible hosts for country (exclude network & broadcast addresses)

$ ./rir -c US -n
1601581670