Re: Tool to find out info about machine ?

2002-04-30 Thread Robert_L
In addition to the other info given, for the location you can try: http://www.xpenguin.com/ip-atlas.php I got bored one day and set it up on my machine. You can try it out here if you want: http://www.phebe.linux-site.net/plot/plot.php all the best, Robert_L On Monday 29 April 12:08, Kapil

Re: Tool to find out info about machine ?

2002-04-30 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Shawn McMahon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: begin Kapil Khosla quotation: I am interested in knowing the hostname, possibly location (server),of a remote machine whose IP address is known to me, What I have been dying to ask is, why do you want to find all this out anyway? Planning a

Re: Tool to find out info about machine ?

2002-04-30 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Jamin W. Collins quotation: Know what you're doing before you portscan people. Very good advice. However, better yet is to have permission. I agree, with the caveat that I consider portscanning me to be permission. :-) -- Join the Sergio Brandano Fan Club:

Re: Tool to find out info about machine ?

2002-04-30 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Robert_L quotation: In addition to the other info given, for the location you can try: http://www.xpenguin.com/ip-atlas.php I got bored one day and set it up on my machine. You can try it out here if you want: http://www.phebe.linux-site.net/plot/plot.php

Re: Tool to find out info about machine ?

2002-04-30 Thread Robert Lefcoe
On Tuesday 30 April 09:29, Shawn McMahon wrote: begin Robert_L quotation: In addition to the other info given, for the location you can try: http://www.xpenguin.com/ip-atlas.php I got bored one day and set it up on my machine. You can try it out here if you want:

Re: Tool to find out info about machine ?

2002-04-30 Thread David Smead
I'd guess that the program works by doing a whois and extracting the business address of the `owner'. Where the server eventually assigned the IP is located would be a little much to ask. -- Sincerely, David Smead http://www.amplepower.com. On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Shawn McMahon wrote: begin

Re: Tool to find out info about machine ?

2002-04-30 Thread craigw
On Tue Apr 30, 2002 at 10:22:56AM +0930, Tom Cook wrote: On 0, Shawn McMahon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: begin Kapil Khosla quotation: I am interested in knowing the hostname, possibly location (server),of a remote machine whose IP address is known to me, What I have been dying to ask

Re: Tool to find out info about machine ?

2002-04-30 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin craigw quotation: Anyway, every single day I get dozens of requests for things like /MSADC/root.exe, winnt/system32/cmd.exe, etc, etc; all windows stuff therefore all failed requests. The typical thing is each IP will look for about 15 things and then give up. Here's a typical

Re: Tool to find out info about machine ?

2002-04-30 Thread craigw
On Tue Apr 30, 2002 at 03:57:23PM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote: begin craigw quotation: Anyway, every single day I get dozens of requests for things like /MSADC/root.exe, winnt/system32/cmd.exe, etc, etc; all windows stuff therefore all failed requests. The typical thing is each IP will

Tool to find out info about machine ?

2002-04-29 Thread Kapil Khosla
Hi, Is there a program / utility in Linux to find out the information of a remote host by telling its IP address. I am interested in knowing the hostname, possibly location (server),of a remote machine whose IP address is known to me, Thanks Kapil See Dave Matthews Band live or win a signed

Re: Tool to find out info about machine ?

2002-04-29 Thread Elizabeth Barham
There is nmap which tries to guess the operating system plus some other things. If you are running those machines and want to found out how things are going, you might consider installing the snmp daemon on them and querying to from remote using the snmp tools. Elizabeth Kapil Khosla [EMAIL

Re: Tool to find out info about machine ?

2002-04-29 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 09:08:22PM -0700, Kapil Khosla wrote: Hi, Is there a program / utility in Linux to find out the information of a remote host by telling its IP address. I am interested in knowing the hostname, possibly location (server),of a remote machine whose IP address is known to

Re: Tool to find out info about machine ?

2002-04-29 Thread craigw
On Sun Apr 28, 2002 at 09:08:22PM -0700, Kapil Khosla wrote: Hi, Is there a program / utility in Linux to find out the information of a remote host by telling its IP address. I am interested in knowing the hostname, possibly location (server),of a remote machine whose IP address is known

Re: Tool to find out info about machine ?

2002-04-29 Thread craigw
On Sun Apr 28, 2002 at 11:41:30PM -0500, Elizabeth Barham wrote: There is nmap which tries to guess the operating system plus some other things. If you are running those machines and want to found out how things are going, you might consider installing the snmp daemon on them and querying to

Re: Tool to find out info about machine ?

2002-04-29 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, craigw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun Apr 28, 2002 at 11:41:30PM -0500, Elizabeth Barham wrote: There is nmap which tries to guess the operating system plus some other things. If you are running those machines and want to found out how things are going, you might consider

Re: Tool to find out info about machine ?

2002-04-29 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Kapil Khosla quotation: I am interested in knowing the hostname, possibly location (server),of a remote machine whose IP address is known to me, For hostname information, try host. This will only work if they have reverse DNS set up for that IP address, and set up correctly. For

Re: Tool to find out info about machine ?

2002-04-29 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Elizabeth Barham quotation: There is nmap which tries to guess the operating system plus some other things. Be careful advising people who don't know what they're doing to use nmap when they want to find host information. Many sysadmins see portscans as an attack. Some ISPs will

Re: Tool to find out info about machine ?

2002-04-29 Thread David Smead
There are functions in the C lib that get host information by name or IP number. I have it wrapped up with a lot of other `play' stuff, but here are the most significant lines of code. sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0 ); if( !sock ) goto abort; if( inet_aton(argv[1], addr) ) { printf(

Re: Tool to find out info about machine ?

2002-04-29 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Mon, 29 Apr 2002 09:19:31 -0400 Shawn McMahon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many sysadmins see portscans as an attack. Some ISPs will delete your account for doing that. In some states folks might even attempt to prosecute you. Actively port scanning another system is against the TOS for