From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 12 3:41:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pollux.sdata.de (pollux.sdata.de [193.30.133.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A81015757 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 03:41:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@sdata.de) Received: from sdata.de (vega.sdata.de [193.30.133.36]) by pollux.sdata.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA01701; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 12:41:33 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from chris@sdata.de) Message-ID: <3803105D.71806D25@sdata.de> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 12:41:33 +0200 From: Christoph Splittgerber Organization: sdata - C. Splittgerber Datentechnik X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cjclark@home.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Identifying an Unresolvable IP References: <199910111519.LAA31237@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Beside whois [-a | -r | -p | ...] , you could "traceroute ", find a host nearby the destination, and see if you can resolve that hostname. Once you have the domain name of the nearby host, find the nameserver (NS-record) for the domain and check if you can find out more if you directly query that nameserver (nslookup -), try to "list" the domain and "grep" for the , or better check the SOA record and write an email to the hostmaster. Christoph To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message