[lug] MX record lookups

[Hugh Brown]

dig origio.net/host origio.net

if nothing comes back it means it is not a real domain name

http://www.arin.net/whois/index.html for reverse look ups of american
net blocks
http://www.ripe.net/perl/whois/  for europe


Hugh


On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 16:25, D. Stimits wrote:
> What would be the proper way to find out who owns a domain name (in this
> case origio.net) or who the registar is for that domain, if it is only
> an MX record and normal nslookup or whois does not know anything about
> it? Similar for ip addresses that are in email headers but which have no
> reverse lookup...what is a good way to find out who they are?
> 
> D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
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