[lug] IP address to host name?

[Dan Radom]

depending on your distro / unix flavor you might want to try 

whois -h whois.arin.net <ip_address>

On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Glenn Murray wrote:

> Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 12:05:09 -0600 (Mountain Daylight Time)
> From: Glenn Murray <gmurray at Mines.EDU>
> Reply-To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: Re: [lug] IP address to host name?
> 
> On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> > it.  If not, you can try "whois <ipaddr with last octet 0 at whois.arin.net"
> > to look up who owns the block (usually).
> 
> Thanks for the replies, nslookup and host will do fine.
> But I think I'm stuck on the syntax of whois above:
> do you mean
> 
> $ whois xxx.xxx.xxx.0 at whois.arin.net
> 
> or something else?
> 
> 
> Glenn
> 
> 
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