Module: Arborist::NetworkUtilities

Included in:
Arborist::Node::Host, Arborist::Node::Service
Defined in:
lib/arborist/mixins.rb

Overview

A collection of utilities for working with network addresses, names, etc.

Constant Summary collapse

IPADDR_RE =

A union of IPv4 and IPv6 regular expressions.

Regexp.union(
	IPAddr::RE_IPV4ADDRLIKE,
	IPAddr::RE_IPV6ADDRLIKE_COMPRESSED,
	IPAddr::RE_IPV6ADDRLIKE_FULL
)

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#normalize_address(address) ⇒ Object

Return the specified address as one or more IPAddr objects.



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# File 'lib/arborist/mixins.rb', line 406

def normalize_address( address )
	addresses = []
	case address
	when IPAddr
		addresses << address
	when IPADDR_RE
		addresses << IPAddr.new( address )
	when String
		ip_addr = TCPSocket.gethostbyname( address )
		addresses = ip_addr[3..-1].map{|ip| IPAddr.new(ip) }
	else
		raise "I don't know how to parse a %p host address (%p)" %
			[ address.class, address ]
	end

	return addresses
end