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is-localhost-ip
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Checks whether given DNS name or IPv4/IPv6 address belongs to a local machine
Comprehensive and robust library to checks whether given host name or IPv4/IPv6 address belongs to the local machine
Main difference from other libraries here is comprehensiveness: we start from strict RegExp checks (for IP address first, and then for correctness to be a host name), then fallback to DNS resolver (so it works with something like john.dev
remapped locally in hosts
or with local resolver).
All this in just ~100 lines of code without external dependencies.
npm i is-localhost-ip
# or
yarn add is-localhost-ip
const isLocalhost = require('is-localhost-ip');
(async () => {
await isLocalhost('127.0.0.1'); // true
await isLocalhost('::ffff:127.0.0.1'); // true
await isLocalhost('192.168.0.12'); // true
await isLocalhost('192.168.0.12', true); // true only if the local machine has an interface with that address
await isLocalhost('184.55.123.2'); // false
await isLocalhost('tino.local'); // true
await isLocalhost('localhost'); // true
await isLocalhost('microsoft.com'); // false
})();
Doesn't work with internationalized (RFC 3492 or RFC 5891) domain names. If you need that please use wonderful Punycode.js to convert the string before passing to this library:
const isLocalhost = require('is-localhost-ip');
const punycode = require('punycode');
(async () => {
await isLocalhost(punycode.toASCII('свобода.рф')); // false
await isLocalhost(punycode.toASCII('私の.家')); // true
})();
is-localhost-ip
is available under the MIT license.
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Checks whether given DNS name or IPv4/IPv6 address belongs to a local machine
The npm package is-localhost-ip receives a total of 332,006 weekly downloads. As such, is-localhost-ip popularity was classified as popular.
We found that is-localhost-ip demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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