Check IP is in Range of Whitelist Array

You can use grepcidr to check if an IP address is in a list of CIDR networks.

#! /bin/bash

NETWORKS="108.161.176.0/20 94.46.144.0/20 146.88.128.0/20 198.232.124.0/22
          23.111.8.0/22 217.22.28.0/22 64.125.76.64/27 64.125.76.96/27
          64.125.78.96/27 64.125.78.192/27 64.125.78.224/27 64.125.102.32/27
          64.125.102.64/27 64.125.102.96/27 94.31.27.64/27 94.31.33.128/27
          94.31.33.160/27 94.31.33.192/27 94.31.56.160/27 177.54.148.0/24
          185.18.207.65/26 50.31.249.224/27 50.31.251.32/28 119.81.42.192/27
          119.81.104.96/28 119.81.67.8/29 119.81.0.104/30 119.81.1.144/30
          27.50.77.226/32 27.50.79.130/32 119.81.131.130/32 119.81.131.131/32
          216.12.211.59/32 216.12.211.60/32 37.58.110.67/32 37.58.110.68/32
          158.85.206.228/32 158.85.206.231/32 174.36.204.195/32
          174.36.204.196/32"

for IP in 108.161.184.123 108.161.176.123 192.168.0.1 172.16.21.99; do
    grepcidr "$NETWORKS" <(echo "$IP") >/dev/null && \
        echo "$IP is in MAXCDN range" || \
        echo "$IP is not in MAXCDN range"
done

NOTE: grepcidr expects the IP address(es) it is matching to be in a file, not just an argument on the command line. That's why I had to use <(echo "$IP") above.

Output:

108.161.184.123 is in MAXCDN range
108.161.176.123 is in MAXCDN range
192.168.0.1 is not in MAXCDN range
172.16.21.99 is not in MAXCDN range

grepcidr is available pre-packaged for several distros, including Debian:

Package: grepcidr
Version: 2.0-1
Description-en: Filter IP addresses matching IPv4 CIDR/network specification
 grepcidr can be used to filter a list of IP addresses against one or
 more Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) specifications, or
 arbitrary networks specified by an address range. As with grep, there
 are options to invert matching and load patterns from a file.
 grepcidr is capable of comparing thousands or even millions of IPs
 to networks with little memory usage and in reasonable computation
 time.
 .
 grepcidr has endless uses in network software, including: mail
 filtering and processing, network security, log analysis, and many
 custom applications.
 Homepage: http://www.pc-tools.net/unix/grepcidr/

Otherwise, the source is available at the link above.


Another alternative is to write a perl or python script using one of the many libraries/modules for manipulating and checking IPv4 addresses with those languages.

For example, the perl module Data::Validate::IP has an is_innet_ipv4($ip, $network) function; Net::CIDR::Lite has a very similar $cidr->find($ip); method; and Net::IPv4Addr has an ipv4_in_network() function.

python has comparable libraries, including ipy, ipaddr, and ipcalc, amongst others.


I realize that this is older and already has an accepted answer, but this solution utilizes a function I wrote for portability across multiple servers in an environment where grepcidr wasn't a standard package across all servers.

The comments should clarify just what it's doing.

#! /bin/bash

# Set DEBUG=1, in order to see it iterate through the calculations.
#DEBUG=1

MAXCDN_ARRAY="108.161.176.0/20 94.46.144.0/20 146.88.128.0/20 198.232.124.0/22 23.111.8.0/22 217.22.28.0/22 64.125.76.64/27 64.125.76.96/27 64.125.78.96/27 64.125.78.192/27 64.125.78.224/27 64.125.102.32/27 64.125.102.64/27 64.125.102.96/27 94.31.27.64/27 94.31.33.128/27 94.31.33.160/27 94.31.33.192/27 94.31.56.160/27 177.54.148.0/24 185.18.207.65/26 50.31.249.224/27 50.31.251.32/28 119.81.42.192/27 119.81.104.96/28 119.81.67.8/29 119.81.0.104/30 119.81.1.144/30 27.50.77.226/32 27.50.79.130/32 119.81.131.130/32 119.81.131.131/32 216.12.211.59/32 216.12.211.60/32 37.58.110.67/32 37.58.110.68/32 158.85.206.228/32 158.85.206.231/32 174.36.204.195/32 174.36.204.196/32"

IP=108.161.184.123

function in_subnet {
    # Determine whether IP address is in the specified subnet.
    #
    # Args:
    #   sub: Subnet, in CIDR notation.
    #   ip: IP address to check.
    #
    # Returns:
    #   1|0
    #
    local ip ip_a mask netmask sub sub_ip rval start end

    # Define bitmask.
    local readonly BITMASK=0xFFFFFFFF

    # Set DEBUG status if not already defined in the script.
    [[ "${DEBUG}" == "" ]] && DEBUG=0

    # Read arguments.
    IFS=/ read sub mask <<< "${1}"
    IFS=. read -a sub_ip <<< "${sub}"
    IFS=. read -a ip_a <<< "${2}"

    # Calculate netmask.
    netmask=$(($BITMASK<<$((32-$mask)) & $BITMASK))

    # Determine address range.
    start=0
    for o in "${sub_ip[@]}"
    do
        start=$(($start<<8 | $o))
    done

    start=$(($start & $netmask))
    end=$(($start | ~$netmask & $BITMASK))

    # Convert IP address to 32-bit number.
    ip=0
    for o in "${ip_a[@]}"
    do
        ip=$(($ip<<8 | $o))
    done

    # Determine if IP in range.
    (( $ip >= $start )) && (( $ip <= $end )) && rval=1 || rval=0

    (( $DEBUG )) &&
        printf "ip=0x%08X; start=0x%08X; end=0x%08X; in_subnet=%u\n" $ip $start $end $rval 1>&2

    echo "${rval}"
}

for subnet in $MAXCDN_ARRAY
do
    (( $(in_subnet $subnet $IP) )) &&
        echo "${IP} is in ${subnet}" && break
done

I wanted to run this on a bunch of hosts without having to install grepcidr and I tried the script by Doug R. but it didn't work, so here's one I wrote that's confirmed working. Hopefully someone will find this useful:

function in_subnet {
    # Determine whether IP address is in the specified subnet.
    #
    # Args:
    #   cidr_subnet: Subnet, in CIDR notation.
    #   ip_addr: IP address to check.
    #
    # Returns:
    #   0|1
    #
    local readonly cidr_subnet="${1}"
    local readonly ip_addr="${2}"
    local subnet_ip cidr_mask netmask ip_addr_subnet subnet rval

    subnet_ip=$(echo "${cidr_subnet}" | cut -d'/' -f1)
    cidr_mask=$(echo "${cidr_subnet}" | cut -d'/' -f2)

    netmask=$(( 0xFFFFFFFF << $(( 32 - ${cidr_mask} )) ))

    # Apply netmask to both the subnet IP and the given IP address 
    ip_addr_subnet=$(( netmask & $(ip_to_int ${ip_addr}) ))
    subnet=$(( netmask & $(ip_to_int ${subnet_ip}) ))

    # Subnet IPs will match if given IP address is in CIDR subnet
    [ "${ip_addr_subnet}" == "${subnet}" ] && rval=0 || rval=1

    return $rval
}

function ip_to_int {
    local readonly ip_addr="${1}"
    local ip_1 ip_2 ip_3 ip_4

    ip_1=$(echo "${ip_addr}" | cut -d'.' -f1)
    ip_2=$(echo "${ip_addr}" | cut -d'.' -f2)
    ip_3=$(echo "${ip_addr}" | cut -d'.' -f3)
    ip_4=$(echo "${ip_addr}" | cut -d'.' -f4)

    echo $(( ip_1 * 256**3 + ip_2 * 256**2 + ip_3 * 256 + ip_4 ))
}