Netbox: Search missing prefixes

[GuillaumeFillol]

Environment

• Python version: 2.7.13
• NetBox version: 2.5.13

Steps to Reproduce

1. Add a new prefix : 10.200.0.0/24
2. Add a new prefix : 10.200.2.0/24
3. Search "10.200"

What did you expect to happen?

Search result show both 2 added prefixes 10.200.0.0/24 and 10.200.2.0/24

What happened instead?

Search result show only one prefix 10.200.0.0/24

[jeremystretch]

This is not a bug. When searching by prefix, the provided ID is cast as a prefix. In this example, "10.200" is interpreted as "10.200.0.0", which is why 10.200.2.0 is not matched.

[DanSheps]

I could have swore this worked before, did this get changed recently? Would we maybe want to not cast it as a prefix?

Just checked this on an old v2.5.0, worked the same way then.

[GuillaumeFillol]

Add new :

• prefix 10.200.0.0/24
• prefix 10.200.2.0/24
• IP address 10.200.0.1/24
• IP address 10.200.2.0124

Then search "10.200", results are :

• prefix 10.200.0.0/24
• IP address 10.200.0.1/24
• IP address 10.200.2.1/24

There you miss the prefix 10.200.2.0/24, and you get the IP address 10.200.2.1/24 which match the missed prefix.

Prefixes search behavior is not the same as IP addresses search, looks like a bug to me, at least confusing for user.

How to search all prefixes and IP addresses matching 10.200.*.* ?

Did this have to be a search functionality evolution ?

[LBegnaud]

could you just search 10.200.0.0/22 or something larger?

[GuillaumeFillol]

could you just search 10.200.0.0/22 or something larger?

"10.200.0.0/22" search response is :

• no prefix
• no IP address
• 1 aggregate 10.200.0.0/22

"10.200.0.0/8" search response is : "no result found"

[jeremystretch]

You want the "search within" field located directly below the general search field on the prefixes list. For example, ?within_include=10.200.0.0/22 will return all prefixes within 10.200.0.0/22 (as well as 10.200.0.0/22 itself, if it exists).

[GuillaumeFillol]

One search, two behaviors, depending if it applies to prefixes/aggregates or ip addresses.
Looks like a bug to me, but if you decide it is a "functionality" so it is.