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isPrivateIP Search Operator

The isPrivateIP operator checks if an IPv4 address is private and returns a boolean.

Syntax

isPrivateIP("<IPv4_string>") as <field>
isPrivateIP(<IPv4_string_field>) [as <field>]

Rules

  • Returns true if the input is a valid private IPv4 address.
  • Invalid IPv4 addresses are dropped from the results.

The following warning is shown when results are dropped or an IPv6 address is detected:

  
isprivateip operator warning for dropped invalid ip addresses.png

Examples

| isPrivateIP(dest_host)

The following returns true:

| isPrivateIP("10.255.255.255") as isPrivate

The following returns true:

| isPrivateIP("192.168.0.1") as isPrivate

The following returns false:

| isPrivateIP("127.0.0.1") as isPrivate
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