Re: identifying the owner of an IP address.
Hal Burgiss <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 03:57:27PM -0700, Joel Thompson wrote: > whois, as far as I know, only looks up names. $ bw-whois 66.187.232.56 BW whois 3.0 by Bill Weinman (http://whois.bw.org/) Copyright 1999-2002 William E. Weinman Request: 66.187.232.56 connecting to whois.arin.net [192.149.252.43:43] ... OrgName: Red Hat Inc. OrgID: REDHAT-1 NetRange: 66.187.224.0 - 66.187.239.255 CIDR: 66.187.224.0/20 NetName: RED-HAT-BLK NetHandle: NET-66-187-224-0-1 Parent: NET-66-0-0-0-0 NetType: Direct Assignment NameServer: NS1.REDHAT.COM NameServer: NS2.REDHAT.COM Comment: RegDate: 2001-11-13 Updated: 2001-11-21 TechHandle: JM3008-ARIN TechName: Madison, Jay TechPhone: +1-919-547-0012 TechEmail: [email protected] # ARIN Whois database, last updated 2002-09-23 22:15 # Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's Whois database. =============== This tells you who owns the IP, but not necessarily who was using it at any particular point in time (if that distinction makes a difference). I don't think you can hold an ISP legally responsible for what one their users does, for instance. AFAIK. -- Hal Burgiss