bswinnerton

Here's a simpler alternative with IP Guide that doesn't require a CLI:

  curl -sL ip.guide/AS19551 | jq .routes

Great idea. This is rolling out right now.

It's not available from the API, but there is a "last updated" date when you view it in a browser. It's at most 8 hours old.

For the backend, it's written in Rust using a few key crates: axum for the api, bgpkit-parser for parsing the MRT data, and reqwest for fetching data at boot.

The site is hosted on Neptune Networks, another side project of mine for people to learn and experiment with BGP.

You'll have to follow the redirects since the site doesn't support HTTP, but just shipped pretty-printing.

No rate limits or auth for requests, but as mentioned below the api starts to load shed at 2k concurrent requests.

> Will this be open-sourced?

I don't think there's a strong reason to keep it closed-source.

> Were you already comfortable in Rust or is there a reason you selected Rust for this project?

This was a big learning opportunity for me to learn Rust. I had done two small projects in Rust before this one.

> How often are RIPE info and MaxMind data updated these days?

The MRT dumps where it gets its BGP data are updated every 8 hours, and MaxMind appears to be updated twice a week.

The country code is the last portion of the networks CSV:

  $ curl -sL ip.guide/bulk/networks.csv | head -n 2
  prefix,asn,organization,country
  1.0.0.0/24,13335,"Cloudflare, Inc.",US

IP Guide is also using MaxMind, I'm not familiar with many other data sources for that kind of data. Are you seeing discrepancies?

No rate limits or auth for requests, but as mentioned below the api starts to load shed at 2k concurrent requests.

Yeah, if you click on "bulk data" you'll see the two statically hosted CSVs for ASN and IP data. What else would you find useful in those datasets? It's quite easy to expand on them.

Oh cool! Is this a fork of ifconfig.co?

Yes! Quite easily, but it requires thinking through the right API design. I'll see if I can work this in this weekend.