IP address files
Some of spamdyke's options search files for IP addresses. In all those
cases, the format of the files is the same. Blank lines and lines beginning
with #
are ignored. Every other line in the file is expected to contain a
single entry.
NOTE: To protect against unknown dangers like programming errors, corrupted filesystems or incorrect file paths, spamdyke will only read the first 65536 lines of any file. If the file is any larger, spamdyke will printing an error message into its logs. If there is a legitimate reason to have more than 65536 lines in a file, the content should be separated into multiple files and spamdyke's option should be given multiple times to search each file.
Individual IP addresses may be given in dotted quad format. Those IP addresses will be matched literally. For example:
11.22.33.44
23.34.45.56
11.22.33.44
and 23.34.45.56
.
NOTE: In dotted quad format, leading zeroes are ignored, so the following is
equivalent to the previous example:
011.022.033.044
023.034.045.056
IP address ranges may be given in one of four ways. First, one or more octets of an IP address may be given and will match any IP addresses with the same first few octets. For example, if the file contained the following entry:
11.22.33
11.22.33.14
, 11.22.33.25
and 11.22.33.236
will all match.
A trailing dot is optional, so if the file contained the following entry:
11.22.
11.22.33.44
, 11.22.134.245
and 11.22.235.46
will all match.
Second, a full or partial IP address with ranges may be given an will match an IP addresses with octets that match the ranges given. For example, if the file contained the following entry:
11.22.33-44.55
11.22.34.55
, 11.22.38.55
and 11.22.41.55
will all match.
If the file contained the following entry:
11.22-44
11.22.134.7
, 11.36.1.267
and 11.43.178.240
will all match.
Third, a full IP address may be given with a netmask, given as a number of bits. For example, if the file contained the following entry:
11.22.33.0/24
11.22.33.2
, 11.22.33.189
and 11.22.33.241
will all match.
If the file contained the following entry:
11.22.0.0/16
11.22.165.98
, 11.22.8.135
and 11.22.0.254
will all match.
Fourth, a full IP address may be given with a netmask in dotted quad format. For example, if the file contained the following entry:
11.22.33.0/255.255.255.0
11.22.33.13
, 11.22.33.76
and 11.22.33.199
will all match.
If the file contained the following entry:
11.22.0.0/255.255.0.0
11.22.59.111
, 11.22.7.189
and 11.22.83.213
will all match.
When a netmask is given, either as a number of bits or a dotted quad, ranges in the base IP address are ignored. If they're present, they don't cause errors but they have no effect.