On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 03:39:30PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 05:23:08PM -0500, Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 03:17:23PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > Cool, didn't know 'whois' took IPs... nslookup wasn't very useful on > > > > that IP address. > > > > > > Right. If whois doesn't return a result, traceroute (or its > > > replacements, which I'm less familiar with) may be useful. As these > > > traverse the network connection, the process is slower. > > > > whois will always return a result; you just have to know how to ask. > > Not strictly true. I've had requests time out, or in certain instances, > be refused (alegedly for overuse from a specific IP or netblock, which I > find implausible).
At one point, I tried a whois on a particular address and recieved a reserved reply from the whois server. Using the web interface on ARIN's site whoever, I got multiple records, 1 saying reserved and the other saying National Guard, Pentagon... > > Peace. > > -- > Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ > What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave > http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free > Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org > Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
