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> A tool to enumerate CIDRs by querying RIRs & BGP ASN prefix lookups

> Currently queries: ARIN, RIPE NCC, APNIC, AfriNIC, LACNIC

> Queries are made for the Org name, network handles, org handles, customer handles,

> BGP prefixes, PoCs with target email domain, and 'notify' email address - used by

> some RIRs.

> Note that severl RIRs currently limit query results to 256 or less, so large

> target orgs may not return all results.

> LACNIC only allows query of ASN or IP address bloks & cannot search for Org names

> directly. The entire DB as been downloaded to a separate file for queries to this RIR.

> The file will be periodically updated to maintain accurate information.

> Output saved to two csv files - one for org & one for PoCs

> A txt file is also output with a full list of enumerated CIDRs

> Author: Jason Ashton (@ninewires)

> Created: 09/19/2016

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This might well be Arabic. I have been in the industry for over 10 years and that explanation is meaningless

These are all Internet Protocol routing features. "CIDR" refers to classless interdomain routing, iirc.

> ARIN, RIPE NCC, APNIC, AfriNIC, LACNIC

These are the global agencies that manage the IP address allocations

you might want to go back an re-read your networking books.

Care to point to a book that talks about these acronyms. They are not in comer or Stevens both which are networking bibles

Ah, but far from the only networking bible. You seem to have forgotten Halabi, Perlman, and a raft of others that discuss (at length) routing and the public Internet.

Some of these acronyms are specific to BGP. You could work in networking for years and not encounter some of them, especially if you aren't running BGP.

As far as "bibles" go, however, Halabi's _Internet Routing Architectures_ is the BGP variant.

TCP/IP Illustrated might not mention CIDR since it was still pretty new when those books were written. My copies haven't been opened in years so I can't be sure.

If you've performed any subnetting in the last 15 years or so, however, I fully expect that you have encountered CIDR.

That's because "ARIN, RIPE NCC, APNIC, AfriNIC, LACNIC" are names of organizations, not technical terms.

The very first line has enough information to know what it does:

"A tool to enumerate CIDRs by querying RIRs & BGP ASN prefix lookups"

In other words, it queries two sources (regional Internet registries -- the organizations referred to above -- and information from the BGP protocol) to enumerate blocks of IP addresses.

On the other hand, it's not meaningless for those of us here who are network engineers.

Just because you're "in the industry" doesn't mean you know everything about everything. I'm not a developer so half the things discussed here on HN are waaaaay over my head.

I don't think the industry you've been in for 10 years is the same one that is relevant to this post and explanation.

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