Re: Find out who has that IP...

[Robert Waldner <Waldner@KPNQwest.at>]

On Tue, 28 Mar 2000 22:10:20 -0000, Jim Breton writes:
>On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 04:58:27PM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote:
>> Does anybody here know how I can find out to what domain a given IP
>> belongs???
>
>Either do an nslookup on the IP, or use whois:
>
>(say the ip is 1.2.3.4)
>
>whois -h whois.arin.net 1.2.3
>
>Just use the first 3 octets of the address, leave off the last part.

ahemm, ARIN is not the only registry, at least with RIPE (european registry)
it´s also possible to register subnets, so I´d recommend using all 4 octets:

whois -h whois.ripe.net 1.2.3.4  (european area)
whois -h whois.apnic.net 1.2.3.4 (asia+pacific area)

&rw
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