From: Wesley Darlington (wesley at domain yelsew.com)
Date: Mon 20 Aug 2001 - 20:30:05 IST
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 07:36:55PM +0100, Gerard Gorman wrote:
> ...on a related note, how do I interpret ip-addresses like 62.98.216.173
> which are not known to the dns server.
Use whois. Usually it will tell you to whom the ip address is registered,
`swip'-ped I believe. AIUI, address ranges are doled out by IANA to ripe,
arin and apnic and you need to use the right whois server. In some cases,
they will refer you to a more specific whois server (eg. brnic, kornic,
aunic, jpnic etc).
The page...
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space [0]
...says that 62/8 is assigned to ripe. So something like...
whois -h whois.ripe.net 62.98.216.173
...or, if you use redhat...
whois 62.98.216.173 at domain whois.ripe.net
...tells us that the address `belongs' to wind.it.
Wesley.
[0] I find this page fascinating. That BBN have *three* /8s (4, 6 & 46)
is (to me) an interesting snippet. That they are AS1 is a similarly
interesting snippet. (ftp://rs.arin.net/netinfo/asn.txt)
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