[lug] IP address to host name?

[Glenn Murray]

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