get_dropv6: Spamhaus IPv6 DROP List (DROPv6)

In hrbrmstr/hormel: Retrieve and Process 'Spamhaus' Zone/Host Metadata

Description

Retrieves the Spamhaus IPv6 DROP List (DROPv6)

Usage

get_dropv6()

Details

The DROPv6 list includes IPv6 ranges allocated to spammers or cyber criminals. DROPv6 will only include IPv6 netblocks allocated directly by an established Regional Internet Registry (RIR) or National Internet Registry (NIR) such as ARIN, RIPE, AFRINIC, APNIC, LACNIC or KRNIC or direct RIR allocations.

Note

This function is "memoised" because the DROP list changes quite slowly. There is no need to update cached data more than once per hour, in fact once per day is more than enough in most cases. Automated downloads must be at least one hour apart. Excessive downloads may result in your IP being firewalled from the Spamhaus website.

If you are using this from a long-running R session and need to fetch the list, use the clear_drops() function to clear the cache of all "DROP" get functions.

References

https://www.spamhaus.org/drop/; https://www.spamhaus.org/faq/section/

hrbrmstr/hormel documentation built on May 12, 2019, 5:45 a.m.