ZITERATE(1)

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✨ ZITERATE ✨

okay bestie, gather round, because we're talking about ziterate — the ziterate manual page, straight from the ZMap squad. it's giving IP-permutation realness and honestly? we're obsessed. 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ziterate [ -b <blocklist> ] [ -w <allowlist> ] [ OPTIONS... ]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so ZIterate is this network tool that spits out IPv4 addresses in a pseudorandom order — basically the same chaotic-but-actually-on-purpose energy that ZMap brings when it generates random addresses to scan. no cap, it's the same vibe, just here for you to iterate on. ✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

💅 BASIC OPTIONS

  • -p, --target-ports=port(s) — give it a list of TCP/UDP ports and/or port ranges to scan, like 80,443,100-105 for example. wanna go feral? use * to scan all ports, including port 0. and if you don't specify any port at all, ziterate will just output plain IPs. 🫶
  • -b, --blocklist-file=path — a file of subnets to exclude, in CIDR notation, one per line. highly recommend you use this to yeet out RFC 1918 addresses, multicast, IANA reserved space, and other IANA special-purpose addresses. there's an example blocklist file called blocklist.conf made for exactly this purpose. 💜
  • -w, --allowlist-file=name — a file of subnets to include, in CIDR notation, one per line. every other subnet gets excluded, sorry not sorry. 🙈
  • -l, --log-file=name — the file to log to.
  • --disable-syslog — turns off logging messages to syslog.
  • -v, --verbosity — how much log detail you want, range is 0-5, and the default is 3.
  • --ignore-blocklist-errors — ignore invalid entries in the blocklist. default is false.
  • --seed=n — the seed used to select the address permutation. 🎲
  • -n, --max-targets=n — cap the number of IPs to generate. can be a number, or a percentage of the address space.

🌈 SHARDING

  • --shards=n — the total number of shards.
  • --shard=n — which shard this scan is targeting. zero indexed, so the first one is 0, bestie.

⭐ ADDITIONAL OPTIONS

  • -h, --help — print the help text and exit. your little emergency exit. 🚪
  • -V, --version — print the version and exit.
ngl, that's the whole page. every flag, every default, every last crumb. slay. 💅

ZMap wrote this one, and it's dated December 2024 — shoutout to them, fr fr. 👑 that's the manual, bestie, now go generate some addresses. 🦋✨

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