From owner-freebsd-security Tue Oct 12 2:59:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from zerlargal.humbug.org.au (zerlargal.humbug.org.au [203.18.94.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B55415237 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 02:59:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bc@thehub.com.au) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=zerlargal.humbug.org.au) by zerlargal.humbug.org.au with smtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 11ayfM-000N8J-00; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 19:56:20 +1000 Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 19:56:20 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Campbell X-Sender: bc@zerlargal.humbug.org.au To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: cjclark@home.com Subject: Re: Identifying an Unresolvable IP In-Reply-To: <19991011113944.A18725@osaka.louisville.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Keith Stevenson wrote: > On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 11:19:15AM -0400, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > > > What tools or references are easily accessible for determining who > > owns a block of IPs? I have not been able figure out how to coax the > > whois -a > Check out the whois(1) man page. See also, http://www.apnic.net/db/RIRs.html . This lists which Regional Internet Registry is nominally authoritative for which IP addresses. If you are bored (and the IP address is in the APNIC ranges), try doing a whois against whois.apnic.net for the appropriate in-addr.arpa . --==-- Bruce. BC666-AP To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message