What IP range and network diagnostic services does cable.ayra.ch offer?

cable.ayra.ch is a personal collection of small, independent web tools, and its IP-related services have changed over time. As of the site's latest change log, the original "IP Ranges" service has been retired and replaced by an improved service, while ping and traceroute were added to the IP website in January 2025. Country-level IP range lists are still published and have been updated periodically. If you are looking for a maintained IP range lookup or basic network diagnostics, the replacement IP service and the ping/traceroute tools are the current entry points; the old IP Ranges page is no longer the one to use.

What the IP range service actually is

The site publishes country IP Ranges — lists that map IP address blocks to countries. These are not a live geolocation API but periodic snapshots, and the change log shows they are refreshed rather than continuously streamed:

Two things follow from this. First, if you need country-to-IP-block data, use the replacement service rather than the retired one — the site explicitly points to it. Second, because updates are dated snapshots, treat any list as current only as of its stated timestamp.

Network diagnostic tools

The IP website includes ping and traceroute, added on 2025-01-14. These are the standard checks:

• Ping — send ICMP echo requests to a host and see whether it responds and how long the round trip takes. Use it to confirm basic reachability and rough latency.
• Traceroute — show the hop-by-hop path packets take to a destination. Use it when ping succeeds but is slow, or fails, to see where along the path the problem appears.

Both operate from the service's own vantage point, not from your machine. That matters: a ping or traceroute run on cable.ayra.ch tells you how that server reaches the target, which can differ from what you would see locally because of routing, firewalls, or ISP peering. It is useful for comparing paths or checking whether a host is reachable from outside your own network, but it is not a substitute for running the same command on your own system.

How to use these services

1. Open the site and pick the relevant category from the six listed at the top (the IP tools sit under the network-related category).
2. For IP ranges, go to the replacement IP service — the change log links to it — and select the country or range you need.
3. For diagnostics, open the IP website's ping/traceroute tool, enter the hostname or IP address, and run it.
4. Read the result with the timestamp and vantage point in mind: check when the range data was last updated, and remember the ping/traceroute result reflects the server's path, not yours.

Things to watch for

• The old IP Ranges service is retired. Links or bookmarks pointing to it may still resolve but are no longer the supported path; the site says an improved replacement was set up.
• Snapshots, not live data. Country IP ranges carry update dates, so verify the date before relying on them for anything time-sensitive.
• Independent services. The site notes that all services operate independently and often have no link back to the overview, so once you are inside a tool you may need to navigate back manually.
• No pricing or account details are stated on the page, so nothing here should be assumed to be free, paid, or login-gated beyond what the site itself shows.

If your goal is simply to check whether a host is reachable from an external network or to look up which country an IP block belongs to, the replacement IP service plus the ping/traceroute tools cover both. If you need live, per-request geolocation or diagnostics from your own network, these dated snapshots and server-side checks will not be enough on their own.