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Geonet

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The Geonet API lets you perform DNS lookups and pings from different places around the world. It can be helpful to see if a website is doing location-based loadbalancing (ex. clients in EU get routed to a different IP than clients in the US). Or get the latency to an IP to debug potential connection issues. Shodan also offers 2 command-line tools that use the Geonet API: geodns and geoping.

Example: geoping

$ curl https://geonet.shodan.io/api/geoping/74.6.231.20 | jq
[
  {
    "ip": "74.6.231.20",
    "is_alive": true,
    "min_rtt": 33.433,
    "avg_rtt": 33.664,
    "max_rtt": 34.06,
    "rtts": [
      34.059762954711914,
      33.43319892883301,
      33.50019454956055
    ],
    "packets_sent": 3,
    "packets_received": 3,
    "packet_loss": 0,
    "from_loc": {
      "city": "Clifton",
      "country": "US",
      "latlon": "40.8344,-74.1377"
    }
  },
  {
    "ip": "74.6.231.20",
    "is_alive": true,
    "min_rtt": 119.83,
    "avg_rtt": 120.107,
    "max_rtt": 120.523,
    "rtts": [
      120.52345275878906,
      119.83036994934082,
      119.96579170227051
    ],
    "packets_sent": 3,
    "packets_received": 3,
    "packet_loss": 0,
    "from_loc": {
      "city": "London",
      "country": "GB",
      "latlon": "51.5085,-0.1257"
    }
  },
  {
    "ip": "74.6.231.20",
    "is_alive": true,
    "min_rtt": 122.562,
    "avg_rtt": 122.917,
    "max_rtt": 123.584,
    "rtts": [
      123.58355522155762,
      122.6050853729248,
      122.56169319152832
    ],
    "packets_sent": 3,
    "packets_received": 3,
    "packet_loss": 0,
    "from_loc": {
      "city": "Amsterdam",
      "country": "NL",
      "latlon": "52.3740,4.8897"
    }
  },
  {
    "ip": "74.6.231.20",
    "is_alive": true,
    "min_rtt": 123.223,
    "avg_rtt": 123.783,
    "max_rtt": 124.584,
    "rtts": [
      124.58372116088867,
      123.22330474853516,
      123.54326248168945
    ],
    "packets_sent": 3,
    "packets_received": 3,
    "packet_loss": 0,
    "from_loc": {
      "city": "Frankfurt am Main",
      "country": "DE",
      "latlon": "50.1155,8.6842"
    }
  },
  {
    "ip": "74.6.231.20",
    "is_alive": true,
    "min_rtt": 207.881,
    "avg_rtt": 208.149,
    "max_rtt": 208.586,
    "rtts": [
      208.5857391357422,
      207.98015594482422,
      207.88145065307617
    ],
    "packets_sent": 3,
    "packets_received": 3,
    "packet_loss": 0,
    "from_loc": {
      "city": "Singapore",
      "country": "SG",
      "latlon": "1.3215,103.6957"
    }
  }
]

Example: geodns

$ curl https://geonet.shodan.io/api/geodns/yahoo.com | jq
[
  {
    "answers": [
      {
        "type": "A",
        "value": "74.6.231.20"
      },
      {
        "type": "A",
        "value": "74.6.143.25"
      },
      {
        "type": "A",
        "value": "98.137.11.164"
      },
      {
        "type": "A",
        "value": "74.6.143.26"
      },
      {
        "type": "A",
        "value": "98.137.11.163"
      },
      {
        "type": "A",
        "value": "74.6.231.21"
      }
    ],
    "from_loc": {
      "city": "Clifton",
      "country": "US",
      "latlon": "40.8344,-74.1377"
    }
  },
  {
    "answers": [
      {
        "type": "A",
        "value": "98.137.11.163"
      },
      {
        "type": "A",
        "value": "74.6.143.26"
      },
      {
        "type": "A",
        "value": "74.6.231.20"
      },
      {
        "type": "A",
        "value": "74.6.231.21"
      },
      {
        "type": "A",
        "value": "98.137.11.164"
      },
      {
        "type": "A",
        "value": "74.6.143.25"
      }
    ],
    "from_loc": {
      "city": "London",
      "country": "GB",
      "latlon": "51.5085,-0.1257"
    }
  },
  {
    "answers": [
      {
        "type": "A",
        "value": "98.137.11.164"
      },
      {
        "type": "A",
        "value": "98.137.11.163"
      },
      {
        "type": "A",
        "value": "74.6.231.20"
      },
      {
        "type": "A",
        "value": "74.6.143.26"
      },
      {
        "type": "A",
        "value": "74.6.231.21"
      },
      {
        "type": "A",
        "value": "74.6.143.25"
      }
    ],
    "from_loc": {
      "city": "Amsterdam",
      "country": "NL",
      "latlon": "52.3740,4.8897"
    }
  },
  {
    "answers": [
      {
        "type": "A",
        "value": "98.137.11.164"
      },
      {
        "type": "A",
        "value": "98.137.11.163"
      },
      {
        "type": "A",
        "value": "74.6.143.26"
      },
      {
        "type": "A",
        "value": "74.6.143.25"
      },
      {
        "type": "A",
        "value": "74.6.231.20"
      },
      {
        "type": "A",
        "value": "74.6.231.21"
      }
    ],
    "from_loc": {
      "city": "Frankfurt am Main",
      "country": "DE",
      "latlon": "50.1155,8.6842"
    }
  },
  {
    "answers": [
      {
        "type": "A",
        "value": "74.6.143.25"
      },
      {
        "type": "A",
        "value": "74.6.231.21"
      },
      {
        "type": "A",
        "value": "74.6.143.26"
      },
      {
        "type": "A",
        "value": "98.137.11.164"
      },
      {
        "type": "A",
        "value": "98.137.11.163"
      },
      {
        "type": "A",
        "value": "74.6.231.20"
      }
    ],
    "from_loc": {
      "city": "Singapore",
      "country": "SG",
      "latlon": "1.3215,103.6957"
    }
  }
]