Calculating CIDR notation from IP ranges

13 Aug 2004

Following from my previous post about blocking some more countries I discovered a bit of a short coming in the code I used to calculate CIDR notation from ranges of IP's. So a bit of searching on CPAN got me Net::CIDR.

use Net::CIDR;

$range = shift;

print (join("\n", Net::CIDR::range2cidr("$range")) . "\n" );

This will take any given range of ip address in format a.b.c.d-w.x.y.z and spew out a list of subnets required to cover the whole range:

# ./range2cidr.pl 64.139.147.0-64.139.170.255

64.139.147.0/24
64.139.148.0/22
64.139.152.0/21
64.139.160.0/21
64.139.168.0/23
64.139.170.0/24

So with this I now have hopefully a more accurate set of rules that will not block bits of New Zeeland as well by accident.

Posted by R.I.Pienaar on Friday, August 13, 2004 at 1:16 PM

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Thanks for this.. I had an example of this someplace, and couldn't find it... And was googeling for another example. Lol, good find on my part. Excellent help tip on yours.

dan

dan | May 6, 2007 3:27 AM | Reply

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