On Fri, 09 Feb 2001 15:29:29 -0500, John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 09 Feb 2001, you wrote:
>> On Thu, 08 Feb 2001 21:12:53 -0600, Bob Hartung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> > My home network firewall is being banged on repeated by a single
>> > foreign IP address. I would like to track it backward.
>> >
>> > I have tried 'whois xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx' without luck. Is there a
>> > specific web site that I can go to for this lookup?
^^^^^^^^
He asked for a web site.
>>
>> Try:
>> http://www.geektools.com/cgi-bin/whois.cgi
>>
> No, man... you've got all the tools you need right there on your system if you
> have a standard "dotted-quad" IP address. ;-) You just have to know where to go
> to find out what that IP address translates to.... and for north-american IPs,
> you go to whois.arin.net. If you get something OTHER than a domain name, it
> should tell you which regional registrar to query. :-)
He asked for a web site, not a command.
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Larry Grover, PhD
Assoc Prof of Physiology
Marshall Univ Sch of Med
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