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How to Write an IP Block List to hosts.deny in Python

This Python script validates a list of IP addresses and CIDR ranges, then writes them to a hosts.deny file to block connections at the TCP wrapper level.

hosts.deny ip-block ipaddress
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from ipaddress import ip_network

def write_hosts_deny(ip_list, output_file="hosts.deny"):
    with open(output_file, "w") as f:
        for ip in ip_list:
            try:
                ip_network(ip)
                f.write(f"ALL: {ip}\n")
            except ValueError:
                continue
    print(f"Written…
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How to Calculate VPC Subnet CIDR Details in Python

Compute network address, broadcast address, address count, prefix length, and netmask for any IPv4 CIDR using the Python standard library's ipaddress module.

ipaddress cidr vpc
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import ipaddress


def subnet_details(cidr: str) -> dict:
    network = ipaddress.ip_network(cidr, strict=False)
    return {
        "network_address": str(network.network_address),
        "broadcast_address": str(network.broadcast_address),
        "num_addresses": network.num_addresses,
        "prefix_length": ne…
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