dsc-data...uthority(7)

💖 dsc-data...uthority(7) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the manual page for client_subnet_authority — it's a generator that lives inside dsc-datatool, and it's here to tell you who actually owns the IPs you're staring at. it's filed under Miscellaneous Information Manual, and yes the title is doing that dramatic little ... thing, we love her for it.

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✨ NAME ✨

client_subnet_authority — generates network authority information (RIR) based on client subnet. 🏛️

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dsc-datatool --generator ";client_subnet_authority;<options...>"

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the vibe: this generator goes and looks up the network authority (that's your RIR, regional internet registry) based network information inside the client_subnet dataset, and then it makes you a whole new dataset called client_subnet_authority. new dataset, who dis 💅

and how does it get the authority info? two ways, pick your fighter:

• by importing it from CSV files, or
• by fetching the data it needs straight from IANA.

that's it. that's the whole job. lowkey iconic. 👑

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• csv=<files> — read the network authority information from the file(s) you hand it. this one is flexible fr fr: it can be a single file, a list of files separated by commas, or you can just give the option multiple times. dealer's choice, bestie.
• fetch=yes — go fetch the network authority information from the IANA IP address space registry, for both IPv4 and IPv6. 🛰️
• urlv4=url — the URL for the IANA IPv4 address space registry. defaults to https://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.csv.
• urlv6=url — the URL for the IANA IPv6 address space registry. defaults to https://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-unicast-address-assignments/ipv6-unicast-address-assignments.csv.
• nonstrict=<value> — if you set this (and honestly, any value will do), you turn on non-strict mode, which means any bad data in the dataset gets completely disregarded and skipped. the default is strict mode, so heads up: if you don't set this, bad data is not going to be politely ignored. ⚠️

fr fr, default = strict. set nonstrict=<anything> if you want the messy stuff skipped instead of blowing up.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• dsc-datatool(1)

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💜 AUTHORS 💜

Jerry Lundström, DNS-OARC

Maintained by DNS-OARC

https://www.dns-oarc.net/tools/dsc

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👑 BUGS 👑

for issues and feature requests, please use:

https://github.com/DNS-OARC/dsc-datatool/issues

for questions and help, please use:

https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dsc

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 this was dsc-data...uthority(7) out of the Miscellaneous Information Manual — yes, the footer really is just the page name being repeated one last time for the drama, no extra version or date info hiding down there. take care of your RIR lookups and slay ✨🎀