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@push.rocks/smartnetwork 🌐

Comprehensive network diagnostics and IP intelligence for Node.js — speed tests, port scanning, ICMP ping, traceroute, DNS, RDAP, ASN lookups, and geolocation in a single, promise-based toolkit.

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🚀 Install

pnpm install @push.rocks/smartnetwork --save

🎯 Overview

@push.rocks/smartnetwork is your Swiss Army knife for network diagnostics in Node.js. Whether you're building monitoring dashboards, investigating IP ownership, or debugging connectivity — this library has you covered with a clean, async API and zero-config setup.

Under the hood, system-level operations (ICMP ping, traceroute, raw-socket port checks, gateway detection) are powered by a bundled Rust binary for maximum performance and cross-platform reliability. Everything else — speed tests, DNS, public IP discovery, IP intelligence, HTTP health checks — runs in pure TypeScript.

Key Features

Category Capabilities
🏎️ Speed Testing Download/upload benchmarks via Cloudflare's global infrastructure
🔌 Port Management Local/remote port checks, find free ports (sequential or random), exclusion lists
📡 Connectivity ICMP ping with stats, hop-by-hop traceroute, HTTP/HTTPS health checks
🌍 DNS A, AAAA, MX resolution with system-first + DoH fallback strategy
🔍 IP Intelligence ASN, organization, geolocation, RDAP registration — all from free public sources
🖥️ Network Discovery Interfaces, default gateway, public IPv4/IPv6
Caching Built-in TTL cache for expensive lookups
🔧 Extensible Plugin architecture for custom functionality
📝 TypeScript Full type definitions, ESM-native

💻 Usage

Basic Setup

import { SmartNetwork } from '@push.rocks/smartnetwork';

const network = new SmartNetwork();

// Start the Rust bridge (auto-started on first use, but explicit start is recommended)
await network.start();

// ... use the network instance ...

// Clean up when done
await network.stop();

Enable caching for repeated lookups:

const network = new SmartNetwork({ cacheTtl: 60000 }); // 60s TTL

🕵️ IP Intelligence

Get ASN, organization, geolocation, and RDAP registration data for any IPv4 address. Combines three free public data sources in parallel:

  • RDAP — direct queries to RIRs (RIPE, ARIN, APNIC, LACNIC, AFRINIC) for authoritative registration data
  • Team Cymru DNS — fast ASN resolution via DNS TXT records
  • MaxMind GeoLite2 — in-memory MMDB databases (auto-downloaded from CDN, periodically refreshed)
const intel = await network.getIpIntelligence('8.8.8.8');

console.log(intel);
// {
//   asn: 15169,
//   asnOrg: 'Google LLC',
//   registrantOrg: 'Google LLC',
//   registrantCountry: 'United States',
//   networkRange: '8.8.8.0/24',
//   abuseContact: null,
//   country: null,
//   countryCode: 'US',
//   city: null,
//   latitude: 37.751,
//   longitude: -97.822,
//   accuracyRadius: null,
//   timezone: 'America/Chicago'
// }

Works great for your own IP too:

const publicIps = await network.getPublicIps();
if (publicIps.v4) {
  const myIntel = await network.getIpIntelligence(publicIps.v4);
  console.log(`You're on AS${myIntel.asn} (${myIntel.asnOrg}) in ${myIntel.city}, ${myIntel.countryCode}`);
}

The IIpIntelligenceResult interface:

interface IIpIntelligenceResult {
  // ASN (Team Cymru primary, MaxMind fallback)
  asn: number | null;
  asnOrg: string | null;

  // Registration (RDAP)
  registrantOrg: string | null;
  registrantCountry: string | null;
  networkRange: string | null;       // CIDR or range
  abuseContact: string | null;       // abuse email from RDAP

  // Geolocation (MaxMind GeoLite2)
  country: string | null;
  countryCode: string | null;        // ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
  city: string | null;
  latitude: number | null;
  longitude: number | null;
  accuracyRadius: number | null;     // km
  timezone: string | null;           // IANA timezone
}

💡 The GeoLite2 databases are fetched into memory from jsDelivr CDN on first use (~32 MB total). They auto-refresh in the background every 7 days (configurable via IpIntelligence options). No disk I/O, no API keys, no rate limits.


🏎️ Speed Testing

Measure network performance via Cloudflare's global infrastructure:

const result = await network.getSpeed();
console.log(`⬇️  Download: ${result.downloadSpeed} Mbps`);
console.log(`⬆️  Upload: ${result.uploadSpeed} Mbps`);

// Advanced: parallel streams + fixed duration
const advanced = await network.getSpeed({
  parallelStreams: 3,
  duration: 5,
});

🔌 Port Management

Check Local Port Availability

Checks both IPv4 and IPv6:

const isUnused = await network.isLocalPortUnused(8080);
console.log(isUnused ? '✅ Port 8080 is free' : '❌ Port 8080 is in use');

Find Free Port in Range

// First available
const port = await network.findFreePort(3000, 3100);

// Random pick (avoids clustering)
const randomPort = await network.findFreePort(3000, 3100, { randomize: true });

// With exclusions
const port2 = await network.findFreePort(3000, 3100, {
  randomize: true,
  exclude: [3000, 3001, 3005],
});

Check Remote Port

// Simple
const isOpen = await network.isRemotePortAvailable('example.com', 443);

// With retries and timeout
const isOpen2 = await network.isRemotePortAvailable('example.com', {
  port: 443,
  retries: 3,
  timeout: 5000,
});

📡 Ping & Traceroute

// Simple ping
const ping = await network.ping('google.com');
console.log(`Alive: ${ping.alive}, RTT: ${ping.time} ms`);

// Multi-ping with statistics
const stats = await network.ping('google.com', { count: 10, timeout: 2000 });
console.log(`📊 min=${stats.min} avg=${stats.avg.toFixed(1)} max=${stats.max} loss=${stats.packetLoss}%`);

// Traceroute
const hops = await network.traceroute('google.com', { maxHops: 20 });
hops.forEach(hop => {
  const rtt = hop.rtt === null ? '*' : `${hop.rtt} ms`;
  console.log(`  ${hop.ttl}\t${hop.ip}\t${rtt}`);
});

⚠️ ICMP ping requires CAP_NET_RAW or appropriate ping_group_range sysctl on Linux.


🌍 DNS Resolution

Uses @push.rocks/smartdns with a system-first strategy and automatic DoH (DNS-over-HTTPS) fallback:

const dns = await network.resolveDns('example.com');
console.log('A records:', dns.A);       // ['93.184.216.34']
console.log('AAAA records:', dns.AAAA); // ['2606:2800:220:1:248:1893:25c8:1946']
dns.MX.forEach(mx => {
  console.log(`📧 ${mx.exchange} (priority ${mx.priority})`);
});

🏥 HTTP/HTTPS Health Checks

const health = await network.checkEndpoint('https://api.example.com/health', {
  timeout: 5000,
  rejectUnauthorized: true,
});
console.log(`Status: ${health.status}, RTT: ${health.rtt.toFixed(0)} ms`);

🖥️ Network Interfaces & Public IPs

// All interfaces
const gateways = await network.getGateways();
Object.entries(gateways).forEach(([name, ifaces]) => {
  console.log(`🔌 ${name}:`);
  ifaces.forEach(i => console.log(`  ${i.family}: ${i.address}`));
});

// Default gateway
const gw = await network.getDefaultGateway();
if (gw) {
  console.log(`🌐 Gateway IPv4: ${gw.ipv4.address}`);
}

// Public IPs (multiple fallback services: ipify, ident.me, seeip, icanhazip)
const publicIps = await network.getPublicIps();
console.log(`🌍 IPv4: ${publicIps.v4 || 'N/A'}`);
console.log(`🌍 IPv6: ${publicIps.v6 || 'N/A'}`);

Caching

Caching applies to getGateways(), getPublicIps(), and getIpIntelligence():

const network = new SmartNetwork({ cacheTtl: 60000 }); // 60s

const ips1 = await network.getPublicIps();  // fetches
const ips2 = await network.getPublicIps();  // cache hit ⚡

🚨 Error Handling

import { SmartNetwork, NetworkError, TimeoutError } from '@push.rocks/smartnetwork';

try {
  await network.isRemotePortAvailable('example.com', { protocol: 'udp' });
} catch (error) {
  if (error instanceof NetworkError) {
    console.error(`${error.message} (code: ${error.code})`); // ENOTSUP
  }
}

Error codes: EINVAL (invalid argument), ENOTSUP (not supported), ETIMEOUT (timeout).


🔧 Plugin Architecture

class MyPlugin {
  constructor(private network: SmartNetwork) {}
  async doStuff() { /* ... */ }
}

SmartNetwork.registerPlugin('myPlugin', MyPlugin);

const PluginClass = SmartNetwork.pluginsRegistry.get('myPlugin');
const plugin = new PluginClass(network);
await plugin.doStuff();

SmartNetwork.unregisterPlugin('myPlugin');

📝 Custom Logging

Replace the default console logger:

import { setLogger } from '@push.rocks/smartnetwork';

setLogger({
  debug: (msg) => myLogger.debug(msg),
  info: (msg) => myLogger.info(msg),
  warn: (msg) => myLogger.warn(msg),
  error: (msg) => myLogger.error(msg),
});

🛠️ Advanced Example: Network Monitor

const monitor = async () => {
  const network = new SmartNetwork({ cacheTtl: 30000 });

  // Check critical services
  const services = [
    { name: 'Web', host: 'example.com', port: 443 },
    { name: 'DB', host: 'db.internal', port: 5432 },
  ];

  for (const svc of services) {
    const up = await network.isRemotePortAvailable(svc.host, svc.port);
    console.log(`${svc.name}: ${up ? '✅ UP' : '❌ DOWN'}`);
  }

  // Internet connectivity + latency
  const ping = await network.ping('8.8.8.8');
  console.log(`Internet: ${ping.alive ? '✅' : '❌'} (${ping.time} ms)`);

  // Speed
  const speed = await network.getSpeed();
  console.log(`Speed: ⬇️ ${speed.downloadSpeed} / ⬆️ ${speed.uploadSpeed} Mbps`);

  // Who am I?
  const ips = await network.getPublicIps();
  if (ips.v4) {
    const intel = await network.getIpIntelligence(ips.v4);
    console.log(`AS${intel.asn} (${intel.asnOrg}) — ${intel.city || intel.countryCode}`);
  }

  await network.stop();
};

📋 Full API Reference

Method Description Requires Rust
start() / stop() Start/stop the Rust binary bridge
getSpeed(opts?) Cloudflare speed test (download + upload) No
ping(host, opts?) ICMP ping with optional multi-ping stats Yes
traceroute(host, opts?) Hop-by-hop network path analysis Yes
isLocalPortUnused(port) Check if local port is free (IPv4+IPv6) Yes
findFreePort(start, end, opts?) Find available port in range Yes
isRemotePortAvailable(target, opts?) TCP port check on remote host Yes
getGateways() List all network interfaces No
getDefaultGateway() Get default gateway info Yes
getPublicIps() Discover public IPv4/IPv6 (4 fallback services) No
resolveDns(host) Resolve A, AAAA, MX records No
checkEndpoint(url, opts?) HTTP/HTTPS health check with RTT No
getIpIntelligence(ip) ASN + org + geo + RDAP registration No

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