On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> Hi
> I had an atempt today from a to access my computer an i have the ipaddress
> from the crupit but can not finout whho own the ip address. durn internic
> is not blocking the info from doing a whois. anyone else know of a way to
> get the info on an ipaddress thanks
>
whois <ipaddress>@whois.arin.net
Internic doesn't maintain a return address lookup
directory. They only maintain the NAME lookup. i.e., you
can lookup "linux-mandrake.com" but you can't lookup
216.71.116.161 at internic (or more properly
networksolutions.com) and find out that the IP address in
question translates to www.linux-mandrake.com.
If arin.net doesn't know who the IP address belongs to,
they will at least tell you which directory WILL tell you
who it belongs to, and then you can query THAT directory
server and find out which domain it belongs to and maybe
find out how to contact someone in charge at that domain.
John
