How to get a random IP from an IP range/subnet?

Question

Let's suppose, I have the IP Range: "52.93.50.128/32" How can I get a random IP address that in that range?

Ruby would be preferable.

Answer 1

I think that this snippet using this gem should work, the easy way is to calculate the IPs range, and then select a new

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'ipaddr'

family = Socket::AF_INET

subnet_range = IPAddr.new("52.93.50.128/32", family).to_range
from = subnet_range.first(2).last
to = IPAddr.new(subnet_range.last.to_i - 2, family)

puts "From: #{from}"
puts "To: #{to}"

random_ip = IPAddr.new(rand(from.to_i..to.to_i), family)

puts "Random IP: #{random_ip}"