Re: identifying the owner of an IP address.
Aaron Konstam <[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. > I did write a perl script that get's hostname by addr (using > gethostbyaddr), but this doesn't return the host name for this machine, > for some > reason. It works for returning the name of say www.oracle.com, > but not for this one machine. What I really need is the OWNER information > on this IP, since I would like to pursue possible legal action on him/her. > > -Joel > host ip-address will return the name of the machine. From its domainame you can try whois. But any good hacker will use an ip-address then DNS can't resolve. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University 715 Stadium Dr. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:[email protected]