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querycontacts
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Query network abuse contacts on the command-line for a given ip address on abuse-contacts.abusix.zone
pip install querycontacts
Starting with version 2.0.0 support for python 2.7 is dropped. This is related to dnspython 2.0.0 also dropping support.
usage: querycontacts [-h] [--provider PROVIDER] [--version] ip
QueryContact - Find the Abuse contact for a IP address
positional arguments:
ip query network abuse contacts for a given ip address
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--provider PROVIDER change standard network abuse contacts provider.
Defaults to abuse-contacts.abusix.zone
--version show program's version number and exit
Show version:
$ querycontacts --version
querycontacts 2.0.0
Show abuse contact for your IP:
$ IP=$(curl ipecho.net/plain)
$ querycontacts $IP
abuse@yourisp.example.com
Test response for localhost:
$ querycontacts 127.0.0.1
Abusix ContactDB Test point
>>> from querycontacts import ContactFinder
>>> qf = ContactFinder()
>>> qf.find('127.0.0.2')
['root@localhost', 'abuse@localhost']
>>> qf.find('::ffff:7f00:2')
['root@localhost']
FAQs
Query network abuse contacts on the command-line for a given ip address on abuse-contacts.abusix.zone
We found that querycontacts demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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