Re: [SLUG] Detective work on hosts

From: Kwan Lowe (kwan@digitalhermit.com)
Date: Tue Mar 28 2006 - 10:57:15 EST


> Does anyone know a way (using host, traceroute or whatever) to track
> down where a site or hosting company is hosted? For example, if a
> hosting company has a certain IP, can you find out where that IP came
> from, who assigned it, etc.? Or can you find out who has which IP
> blocks? (Hope that makes sense.)
>

You can get some good info at dnsstuff.com. Query by IP and domain to get
information on the servers. Depending on how the domains are delegated you may also
see PTR records pointing to the ISP.

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