IPv6?

[welwood08]

I was experimenting to see what happened if I fed iprange IPv6 addresses, somewhat predictably it failed like so:

::/8
iprange: Ignoring text after hostname '' on line 1: '::/8
'
iprange: DNS: '' failed permanently: Invalid value for hints
2001:ddd:1::/48
iprange: Ignoring text after hostname '2001' on line 2: ':ddd:1::/48
'
iprange: DNS: '2001' failed permanently: Invalid value for hints

Is there any long-term plan for some level of IPv6 support? For my personal use I'm not in any hurry but I can see how it might be useful to others. Obviously the problem space is exponentially larger, so I could also understand if the answer's "never" - useful to have in the issue list nonetheless for future searchers.

[ktsaou]

Yes, unfortunately iprange is only IPv4 at the moment.
IPv6 lists are not that common (I have found just 2-3 of them), so I didn't develop it.

But yes, if we need it, we could do it. Actually, we could update iprange to always be IPv6 and express IPv4 address space in IPv6 ::ffff:IPV4.

[welwood08]

Thanks for the quick response. Glad to hear you already have an idea of how to implement support should the need for it increase, I was indeed planning how I might optimally merge IPv6 blocklists in the future.

Is it OK to leave this issue open so I can be notified when the day comes or do you prefer 0 open issues? (I'm sure I'm years away from actually needing to worry even if the bad actors move to v6 sooner, so no worries if you prefer to close.)

[WaterByWind]

IPv6 blacklists still seem uncommon but there are a couple.

http://www.blocklist.de/en/export.html has chosen to include both IPv4 and IPv6 together in the same lists, based on user feedback. IPv6 entries are not very common but do appear.

SpamHaus now has a DROPv6 list, though it is generally rather short.

And there is Team-Cymru that publishes a fullbogons list for each of IPv4 and IPv6.

[cbuijs]

All list on ipdeny.com are now IPv6 as well (not really blocklist, but I use them to block some countries high in the security lists):

http://www.ipdeny.com/blog/ipv6-blocks-are-ready-for-download/

And some others:

https://www.myip.ms/files/blacklist/csf/latest_blacklist.txt
https://www.stopforumspam.com/downloads (several lists)

(And as mentioned already, DROPv6 by spamhaus, which is already worth it on it's own).

They all seem to be growing and including IPv6 more and more. I would say better to be early then late on this, as IPv6 is a nice "new" vector for nasty people to use, and if we cannot block it by the lack of tools (or knowledge), we are defenseless.

Just my 2 cents.

[bzed]

any news on this issue? ipv6 support would be really great to have!

[bolemo]

2020, almost 2021.
An ip6range tool would be great. Any status update on IPv6 support?

[bolemo]

It seems this project is dead… At least in this Repository.

[dg-nx]

Another +1 for v6 support if anyone has the time...

[kseistrup]

Yeah, IPv6 would be really nice.