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Discover external IP addresses and NAT topologies using STUN.
https://github.com/aarant/pynat

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Discover external IP addresses and NAT topologies using STUN.

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.. _pypi: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pynat
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.. _license: https://github.com/arantonitis/pynat/tree/master/LICENSE

PyNAT
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|pypi|_ |license|_

Discover external IP addresses and NAT topologies using STUN (Simple Traversal of UDP Through Network Address Translators).

PyNAT follows `RFC 3489`_, and is inspired by a similar program for
Python 2.x called PyStun_. PyNAT supports Python 2.7 and later.

.. _RFC 3489: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3489
.. _PyStun: https://github.com/jtriley/pystun

Installation
============
PyNAT requires Python 2.7 or later.

From PyPI
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Install PyNAT by running ``pip3 install pynat`` from the command line.

.. note::

On some Linux systems, installation may require running pip with root permissions, or running ``pip3 install pynat --user``. The latter may require exporting `~/.local/bin` to PATH.

From GitHub
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Clone or download the `git repo`_, navigate to the directory, and run::

python3 setup.py sdist
cd dist
pip3 install pynat-.tar.gz

.. _git repo: https://github.com/arantonitis/pynat

Usage
=====
To get information about the network topology and external IP/port used, run ``pynat``::

Network type: UDP Firewall
Internal address: 127.0.0.1:54320
External address: 127.0.0.1:54320

Run ``pynat -h`` or ``pynat --help`` for more options::

usage: pynat [-h] [--source_ip SOURCE_IP] [--source-port SOURCE_PORT]
[--stun-host STUN_HOST] [--stun-port STUN_PORT]

PyNAT v0.0.0 Discover external IP addresses and NAT topologies using STUN.
Copyright (C) 2018 Ariel Antonitis. Licensed under the MIT License.

optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--source_ip SOURCE_IP
The source IPv4/IPv6 address to bind to.
--source-port SOURCE_PORT
The source port to bind to.
--stun-host STUN_HOST
The STUN host to use for queries.
--stun-port STUN_PORT
The port of the STUN host to use for queries.

To use PyNAT inside a Python shell or project::

from pynat import get_ip_info
topology, ext_ip, ext_port = get_ip_info()

To also get information about the internal IP, if unknown::

topology, ext_ip, ext_port, int_ip = get_ip_info(include_internal=True)

Development
===========
PyNAT versioning functions on a ``MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH.[DEVELOP]`` model. Only stable, non development releases will be published to PyPI. Because PyNAT is still a beta project, the ``MAJOR`` increment will be 0. Minor increments represent new features. Patch increments represent problems fixed with existing features.