From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Dec 17 12:53:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA15227 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 12:53:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from loviatar.webcom.com (loviatar.webcom.com [209.1.28.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA15221 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 12:53:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from graeme@echidna.com) Received: from kigal.webcom.com (kigal.webcom.com [209.1.28.57]) by loviatar.webcom.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id MAA12183; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 12:53:24 -0800 Received: from [209.122.117.150] by inanna.webcom.com (WebCom SMTP 1.2.1) with SMTP id 15702406; Thu Dec 17 12:51 PST 1998 Message-Id: <36796F8D.403E@echidna.com> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 15:54:37 -0500 From: Graeme Tait Organization: Echidna X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win95; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: ryanm Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Class C References: <36796B46.D2B5E5AC@accn.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ryanm wrote: > > Could someone tell me how I can get as much information pertaining > to a specific class C as possible?? I have an unresolveable IP address > and want to find out who owns it or administers it. A user has attempted > to hack into one of my machines and I would like to contact the place > were he gets I'net service through. If anyone has any info they can > feed back to me I would appreciate it. whois -h whois.arin.net ip# (if from the American registry) and go from there. In general: American Registry for Internet Numbers - whois.arin.net European IP Address Allocations - whois.ripe.net Asia Pacific IP Address Allocations - whois.apnic.net Also, dig -x can give quick answers, even when there is no PTR record for the full IP. -- Graeme Tait - Echidna To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message