Which-cloud
Infrastructure
ip address lookup
SHOW HN2016
38points
9comments
#883of 2,264 in 2016
Top 40%of 2016 by points
How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
0 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 4 comments about the project.
Performance: 0 for, 2 againstIdea: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
Objections
Relies on whois lookups, which are rate limited and unsuitable for high volume
From 2 comments
What are you doing to prevent others using you as a whois proxy? Alternately, how are you planning to evade the (rather restrictive) rate limits which whois servers impose?
teddyh on HNYou realize that the majority of IPs submitted may not be from a known cloud provider/test suite, and so you're still dealing with the rate limiting from falling back for most…
ugexe on HN
Metadata API approach would work inside a cloud network without internet access
From 1 comment
This code seems to rely on IP ranges and whois lookups, which won't work if you're running on a network / VPC that has no internet access Some clouds provide a metadata api…
ereyes01 on HN
Requests
Support for more cloud providers
From 2 comments
it's a goal to use the advertised IP blocks of cloud providers where possible, with whois simply as a fallback. Will happily accept patches for other providers.
BenjaminCoe on HNI built this library to track signups for an application that has a fairly low request rate. if you need a higher request rate 🤷 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ pitch in and help add support for a…
BenjaminCoe on HN
Questions
What does this add over plain whois?
From 1 comment
what does this add instead of using whois?
pyvpx on HN
How is it prevented from being used as a whois proxy?
From 1 comment
What are you doing to prevent others using you as a whois proxy? Alternately, how are you planning to evade the (rather restrictive) rate limits which whois servers impose?
teddyh on HN
Alternatives named
Plain whois lookups
From 1 comment
what does this add instead of using whois?
pyvpx on HN
Hurricane Electric BGP Toolkit
From 1 comment
See also: The Hurricane Electric BGP Toolkit shows the ISP based on the AS number from which the IP address is announced: http://bgp.he.net/ Example:…
ers35 on HN