iptoasn-webservice

A high-performance HTTP API server that maps IP addresses to Autonomous System (AS) information including ASN, country code, and organization description.

This is the source code of the (previously) public API from iptoasn.com.

Features

• Fast IP to ASN lookups using efficient binary search over sorted IP ranges
• Automatic database updates with configurable refresh intervals
• Robust data loading with fallback mechanisms for offline operation
• Multiple output formats (JSON and HTML)
• Built-in caching for downloaded databases
• Production-ready with proper HTTP headers and error handling

Requirements

• Rust (latest stable)

Installation & Usage

Build from source

cargo build --release

Run the server

# Default configuration (listen on 127.0.0.1:53661, refresh every 60 minutes)
./target/release/iptoasn-webservice

# Custom configuration
./target/release/iptoasn-webservice \
  --listen 0.0.0.0:8080 \
  --url https://iptoasn.com/data/ip2asn-combined.tsv.gz \
  --refresh 120

Command line options

• --listen (-l): Address and port to bind to (default: 127.0.0.1:53661)
• --url (-u): Database URL to download from (default: https://iptoasn.com/data/ip2asn-combined.tsv.gz)
• --refresh (-r): Database refresh interval in minutes, 0 to disable (default: 60)

API Usage

JSON Response

curl -H'Accept: application/json' http://localhost:53661/v1/as/ip/8.8.8.8

{
  "announced": true,
  "as_country_code": "US",
  "as_description": "GOOGLE - Google LLC",
  "as_number": 15169,
  "first_ip": "8.8.8.0",
  "ip": "8.8.8.8",
  "last_ip": "8.8.8.255"
}

HTML Response

curl http://localhost:53661/v1/as/ip/8.8.8.8

Returns a formatted HTML page with the IP information.

Unannounced IPs

For IP addresses not found in BGP announcements:

{
  "announced": false,
  "ip": "127.0.0.1"
}

Data Source

The service downloads and processes the IP-to-ASN mapping database from iptoasn.com, which provides comprehensive BGP routing table data updated regularly. The database is automatically cached locally and the service includes fallback mechanisms to continue operating even when the remote database is unavailable.