Re: [Full-disclosure] GeoIPgen version 0.4 released - country-to-IPs generator

[Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:50, Adrian P <unknown.pentester@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 5:17 AM, Andrew Horton
> <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I've just released a new version of GeoIPgen
>>
>> Description: GeoIPgen is a country-to-IPs generator. It's a geographic IP 
>> generator for IPv4
>> networks that uses the MaxMind GeoLite Country database. Geoipgen is the 
>> first published use of a
>> geographic ip database in reverse to translate from country-to-IPs instead 
>> of the usual use of
>> IP-to-country. Features: Random or sorted order, unique or repeating IPs, 
>> skips broadcast addresses,
>
> Neat project, and a research topic I've been interested in for several
> years. However, it's not the first time that the MaxMind GeoLite
> database has been used to generate lists of IP blocks for a given
> country (country2ip, rather than ip2country).
>
> October 2007:
> http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/strategic-hacking-geoip/
> http://www.gnucitizen.org/static/blog/2007/10/country2ip.ppt
>
>
>> one, many or all countries.
>>
>> Changes: Much faster than version 0.3, for example generating all IPs for 
>> Papa New Guinea took a
>> couple of minutes with version 0.3. Now it takes a few seconds.
>>
>> Homepage: http://www.morningstarsecurity.com/research/geoipgen
>>
>> P.S. Please tell me about your projects or nationwide scanning efforts that 
>> use geoipgen. Eg. the
>> Australian Web Enumeration Project http://www.auenumerate.net
>>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Andrew Horton
>>
>> MorningStar Security
>> Mobile +64 (0) 272 646 959
>> Web www.morningstarsecurity.com

See also:

http://xkcd.com/195/

Though I don't know where he got his data...

Kurt

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