[thelist] DHCP Record?
Andrew Forsberg
andrew at thepander.co.nz
Sat Dec 8 17:25:09 CST 2001
>Im going to contact the stupid ISP.
If you want to know stuff like: what range block the IP address
belongs to, who owns, it, what country it is assigned to, etc etc.
Then you want to do a traceroute on it. There's occasionally more
descriptive info in there. But with an ISP's DHCP assigned IP address
there's not likely to be much useful info. Geektools:
http://www.geektools.com/
has a whois routine (far right link on the nav bar) that digs through
a large list of different servers (whois.abuse.net, whois.nic.ac, etc
etc etc). Can save you a lot of time if you're not sure which whois
server to query.
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>Vague answers are not helpful.
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True, but your question was a bit vague too, to be fair to Dave. What
information do you want? If it's stuff like: how long before this IP
address expires? or what is the name of the ISP's user who was using
this IP address at X time on Y date? then you're almost certainly out
of luck unless you can convince the ISP to give you the info.
Cheers
Andrew
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