On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 11:38, Dave Carrigan wrote: > On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 01:47:37PM +0000, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > Is there a tool along the lines of nslookup, dig, host, and so on that > > can list what websites, i.e. domain names, are hosted on a particular IP > > address ?? > > No. The host command will tell you what the reverse name of an IP > address is: > > $ host www.rudedog.org > www.rudedog.org CNAME gw.rudedog.org > gw.rudedog.org A 206.124.142.242 > $ host 206.124.142.242 > Name: dsl-142-242.sea.blarg.net > Address: 206.124.142.242 > > However, there is no way to figure out that 206.124.142.242 is > www.rudedog.org, www.chezcarrigan.com, gallery.chezcarrigan.com, etc. > > The only feasible way to do that would be to transfer every single DNS > zone on the known internet(*) and find the A records that pointed to > 206.124.142.242, and even then, that wouldn't tell you exactly what you > want to know.
To be certain that you're getting all of the possible websites on a particular IP the above would be necessary. However, going under the assumption that most websites that are on the same IP will use the same nameserver as well, it might be a good start to just get the A records on that particular nameserver. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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