On Thursday, February 17, 2011 04:08:05 pm Paul Saenz wrote: > That's a neat trick I didn't know about: whois 204.69.4.20 > When I tried to navigat to that IP in my browser address, the > connection timed out, so I stopped there and asked the question.
If there's a rDNS entry you can also do: $ dig -x 204.69.4.20 which in this case returns: ; <<>> DiG 9.7.0-P1 <<>> -x 204.69.4.20 ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 20865 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;20.4.69.204.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: 4.69.204.in-addr.arpa. 900 IN SOA ns3.rcc.edu. admin.rccd.net. 16 10800 3600 2592000 900 ;; Query time: 93 msec ;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8) ;; WHEN: Thu Feb 17 16:26:47 2011 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 103 Jeff -- Jeff Lasman Post Office Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only Phone +1 909 266-9209, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html"; _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list LinuxUsers@socallinux.org http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
