Validate an IP Address (with Mask)

Question

I have ip addresses and a mask such as 10.1.1.1/32. I would like to check if 10.1.1.1 is inside that range. Is there a library or utility that would do

Answer 1

First you'll want to convert your IP addresses into flat ints, which will be easier to work with:

String       s = "10.1.1.99";
Inet4Address a = (Inet4Address) InetAddress.getByName(s);
byte[]       b = a.getAddress();
int          i = ((b[0] & 0xFF) << 24) |
                 ((b[1] & 0xFF) << 16) |
                 ((b[2] & 0xFF) << 8)  |
                 ((b[3] & 0xFF) << 0);

Once you have your IP addresses as plain ints you can do some bit arithmetic to perform the check:

int subnet = 0x0A010100;   // 10.1.1.0/24
int bits   = 24;
int ip     = 0x0A010199;   // 10.1.1.99

// Create bitmask to clear out irrelevant bits. For 10.1.1.0/24 this is
// 0xFFFFFF00 -- the first 24 bits are 1's, the last 8 are 0's.
//
//     -1        == 0xFFFFFFFF
//     32 - bits == 8
//     -1 << 8   == 0xFFFFFF00
mask = -1 << (32 - bits)

if ((subnet & mask) == (ip & mask)) {
    // IP address is in the subnet.
}