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matt.schnarr has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
Hello all,
I was hoping someone might know of a perl module that will allow me to randomly generate an internal or external ip address?
It's not something that would be very hard to do, but I imagine someone's already gone to the trouble of doing this.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
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Re: Generate Random IP Addresses
by hardburn (Abbot) on Sep 07, 2004 at 13:30 UTC
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IP addresses are just 32-bit numbers. If you just need any random address, then:
my $addr = int rand 2**32;
# Perhaps some code for formatting the address into
# dotted-quad form
If you need to make sure the address has certain properties (like "class-B, private address space"), then your task is harder. I'm not sure if there is a module available. It's not that common of a task.
"There is no shame in being self-taught, only in not trying to learn in the first place." -- Atrus, Myst: The Book of D'ni.
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If you need to make sure the address has certain properties (like "class-B, private address space"), then your task is harder.
But not really by much. Any common address space allocation can be described by a netmask and a sample address. So, then, you just do this:
# for 192.168.*.*
my @netmask_a = qw ( 255 255 0 0 );
my @sample_a = qw ( 192 168 0 0 );
my $netmask = unpack("N", pack("C*", @netmask_a));
my $sample = unpack("N", pack("C*", @sample_a));
my $addr = int rand(2**32);
$addr &= ~ $netmask;
$addr ^= $sample;
# Dotted quad form:
my $dottedaddr = join(".", unpack("C*", pack("N", $addr)));
If you wanted to be a bit more efficient, you might adjust the "32" in the rand line based on how many bits of randomness you actually need, but I'm not actually sure that buys you anything, and it hurts maintainability when you forget to switch it back when you're looking through a larger address range. If you're really hurting for efficiency, and have this in a tight loop, compute $netmask and $sample from the arrays outside the tight loop, and pass both in, as in:
sub rand_addr ($$) {
my ($netmask, $code) = @_;
my $addr = int rand(2**32);
$addr &= ~ $netmask;
$addr ^= $sample;
$addr;
}
# for 192.168.*.*
my @netmask_a = qw ( 255 255 0 0 );
my @sample_a = qw ( 192 168 0 0 );
my $netmask = unpack("N", pack("C*", @netmask_a));
my $sample = unpack("N", pack("C*", @sample_a));
my @newaddrlist =
map { join(".", unpack("C*", pack("N",$_))) }
map { rand_addr($netmask,$sample); } ( 1 .. 5678 );
but for anything other than intrusion test systems, I can't imagine why efficiency would be important.
Note that none of this code has been tested, but it all looks vaguely right.
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For those stumbling across this post in the future, I wanted to add a comment that I don't believe generating a random 32-bit number is the proper way to generate a random ip address. As illustrated in some of the other posts, you need to generate a random number for each octect.
This is not blatantly obvious and was a minor stumbling block while trying to figure out how to use that code.
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Re: Generate Random IP Addresses
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 07, 2004 at 13:31 UTC
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join ".", map int rand 256, 1 .. 4
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Re: Generate Random IP Addresses
by pelagic (Priest) on Sep 07, 2004 at 13:35 UTC
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#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
srand(time() ^ ($$ + ($$ << 15)));
for (1..100){
print join ('.', (int(rand(255))
,int(rand(255))
,int(rand(255))
,int(rand(255))))
, "\n";
}
__OUTPUT__
210.232.115.79
18.239.245.96
15.138.29.10
182.166.124.240
118.118.155.180
80.200.1.109
139.170.113.124
85.13.30.193
80.198.199.175
111.162.166.83
... a.s.o.
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Re: Generate Random IP Addresses
by Pragma (Scribe) on Sep 07, 2004 at 18:29 UTC
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For the obfuscation section:
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<?php
for ($n = 1; $n < 100; $n++) {
print implode('.', array(intval(mt_rand(0,255)),
intval(mt_rand(0,255)),
intval(mt_rand(0,255)),
intval(mt_rand(0,255)))) . "\n";
}
?>
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Re: Generate Random IP Addresses
by dave_the_m (Monsignor) on Sep 07, 2004 at 13:33 UTC
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Well, it would be absolutely trivial to do, but why would
you want a random external IP address?
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The only potentially good reason I can think of is to test your IP-matching regexen. That is, if you're against using Regexp::Common::net.
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Im looking to generate a list of ips starting from something like 71.100.100.180 or something like that. need help doing this. I need to ban a whole city from something lol. :-P I think this is what the monkey guy might be trying to do as well.
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## Subs to convert dotted-quads to integers and vice versa
sub dq2n{ unpack 'N', pack 'C4', split '\.', $_[ 0 ] };;
sub n2dq{ join '.', unpack 'C4', pack 'N', $_[ 0 ] };;
$start = dq2n( '71.100.100.180' );;
print n2dq( $_ ) for $start .. $start + 100;;
71.100.100.180
71.100.100.181
71.100.100.182
...
71.100.100.254
71.100.100.255
71.100.101.0
71.100.101.1
71.100.101.2
...
71.100.101.22
71.100.101.23
71.100.101.24
Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
"Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
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Random sampling in a certain ip range is one reason...
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