Searching for IP Addresses

[David Mullen]

I have a fresh installation of Confluence -- and I've thrown some pages together for testing. I'm having problems searching for IP addresses... Any tips?  or does it just not do that?  My hope was that I could search for the first two octets of an IPV4 Address  (i.e. 192 168 ) and have it bring up data in pages with 192.168

Thanks in advance,

Dave

[Davin Studer]

It is possible ... just not pretty. You can do it with a regex search like below.

/.*192[.]168[.]0[.]50.*/

[Karl-Petter Åkesson]

It does not work very well either. Here is an example from our Confluence. I have navigated to our IP Plan and that page is not one of the 10 pages that comes up in the search.

Do you know if someone has asked for an improvement or fix on this? Not being able to search for IPs in such a well-known and widely used service as Confluence is surprissing!

[David Mullen]

One thing I found was I am able to find IPs by searching for the first two octets like this:

192.168*

It won't work to find the last two octets, but it's something!  It's cool to know that regex would work, but that'd be a real stretch for some of the people to do each time.  Thanks for the suggestion though!

[Anthony Holden]

Hi,

I just came across the same issue, although I found I would get a hit if the (full) IP I was searching for didn't have the protocol in front, ie:

192.168.0.1

If the IP is part of a path, ie:

192.168.0.1/index.htm

The search wouldn't find it either.

Thanks for the tips on searching with wildcard and regex though!