Geolocated ASN with MaxMind GeoIP2 (mm2asn, asn)

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Description

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

This operation returns data for public IP addresses only. If an IP is private, it will return null.

Agnostic operation alias

The alias asn is an agnostic operation aimed at defining more generic names for the GeoIP v2 operations.

Note that agnostic operations are only available in our APIs for now. These will be available in the search window of the Devo app in future releases.

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 integer.

Example

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

You will see the following result:

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 ASN with MaxMind GeoIP2 operation:

mm2asn(ip)
mm2asn(ip6)

Example

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

from demo.ecommerce.data
select mm2asn(clientIpAddress) as asn