Re: whois like functionality on Windows?

2005-07-01 Thread Gerrit Muller
Peter Hansen wrote: > If the address doesn't get mapped to a name by a DNS server, I strongly > suspect you will get nowhere with whois, or much else. Not all IP > addresses have corresponding domain names: many are dynamic addresses > assigned on the fly to arbitrary customers of (for example

Re: whois like functionality on Windows?

2005-06-29 Thread Peter Hansen
Gerrit Muller wrote: > thanks for your suggestion. I did indeed look broader than whois, and > reverse DNS maybe a better description. Unfortunately I did try the > socket.gethostbyaddr("194.109.137.226"), but the result was a > disappointing "host not found", both at home on an XP machine as we

Re: whois like functionality on Windows?

2005-06-28 Thread Gerrit Muller
Peter, Thomas, thanks for your suggestion. I did indeed look broader than whois, and reverse DNS maybe a better description. Unfortunately I did try the socket.gethostbyaddr("194.109.137.226"), but the result was a disappointing "host not found", both at home on an XP machine as well as at wor

Re: whois like functionality on Windows?

2005-06-28 Thread Peter Hansen
Gerrit Muller wrote: > I am migrating a website from a UNIX based machine to an Windows > machine. In the logfiles I got from the old machine I mostly got domain > names and sometimes only IP addresses. The Windows machine seems to > produce only IP addresses. > > Somehow I cannot find a window

Re: whois like functionality on Windows?

2005-06-28 Thread Thomas Heller
Gerrit Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am migrating a website from a UNIX based machine to an Windows > machine. In the logfiles I got from the old machine I mostly got > domain names and sometimes only IP addresses. The Windows machine > seems to produce only IP addresses. > > Somehow I ca