You can do the lookup, but it will return info about the provider of the IP address and not the user of it.

Just tried this for my own IP (public) and it returned full details of my ISP. Useful for tracing the source of an IP, and then the ISP could trace back who was allocated that IP if required.

Regards,

nry


Adam,


Surely I can't do a whois lookup (altho i haven't tried) if my service
provider gives me just an IP but no dns entry?

I'm thinking if the trend started (blocking IPs), there must've been a good
reason. It is blocked even in my org.

Cheers,
Prash

-----Original Message-----
From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Adam Aube
Sent: 07 May 2004 19:50
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [squid-users] RE: Numeric IP, in-addr issues


Prash wrote:


> don't know about the docs mate but if a website does not have a dns entry
> then you won't be able to "whois" and find out who runs that website or
> even the contact address.


You can do WHOIS lookups on IP addresses. This will give you the
organization responsible for that address, and you can contact them.

Adam


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