Geolocated AS Organization Name with MaxMind GeoIP2 (mm2asorg)

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Description

This operation uses MaxMind GeoIP2 services to return the organization name associated with the autonomous system number (ASN) of an IPv4 or IPv6 address. An ASN is a unique number assigned to an AS (autonomous system).

How does it work in the search window?

This operation needs only one argument:

Argument	Data type

Argument	Data type
Ip (v4 or v6) ^mandatory	ip, ip6

The data type of the new column is string.

Example

In the demo.ecommerce.data table, we want to get the organization names corresponding to the IP addresses in our clientIpAddress column, so we click Create column and select the Geolocated AS Organization Name with MaxMind GeoIP2 operation. Select clientIpAddress as the argument and assign a name to the new column - let's call it AS_orgName.

The result is a column of string data type containing the organization name.

How does it work in LINQ?

Use the operator select... as... and add the operation syntax to create the new column. These are the valid formats of the Geolocated AS Organization Name with MaxMind GeoIP2 operation:

mm2asorg(ip)
mm2asorg(ip6)

Example

Copy the following LINQ script and try the above example on the demo.ecommerce.data table.

from demo.ecommerce.data
select mm2asorg(clientIpAddress) as AS_orgName