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That's because "ARIN, RIPE NCC, APNIC, AfriNIC, LACNIC" are names of organizations, not technical terms.

The very first line has enough information to know what it does:

"A tool to enumerate CIDRs by querying RIRs & BGP ASN prefix lookups"

In other words, it queries two sources (regional Internet registries -- the organizations referred to above -- and information from the BGP protocol) to enumerate blocks of IP addresses.



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