From owner-freebsd-security Tue Oct 12 6:39: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from faith.cs.utah.edu (faith.cs.utah.edu [155.99.198.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DC021533C for ; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 06:39:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from danderse@faith.cs.utah.edu) Received: (from danderse@localhost) by faith.cs.utah.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA05231; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 07:38:38 -0600 (MDT) From: David G Andersen Message-Id: <199910121338.HAA05231@faith.cs.utah.edu> Subject: Re: Identifying an Unresolvable IP To: bc@thehub.com.au (Bruce Campbell) Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 07:38:38 -0600 (MDT) Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, cjclark@home.com In-Reply-To: from "Bruce Campbell" at Oct 12, 99 07:56:20 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Or just use geektools: whois -h www.geektools.com
They'll automatically recurse to the proper registry for you. It's pretty convenient when you're a lazy bum like myself. :) -Dave Lo and behold, Bruce Campbell once said: > > 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 . -- work: dga@lcs.mit.edu me: dga@pobox.com MIT Laboratory for Computer Science http://www.angio.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message