Re: How do I check who is at an IP address?

[zzzz <nospam [at] zapata.freeserve.co.uk>]

Barrie Bremner wrote:
> 
>  Someone recently ran a portscan on me...and I`m interested to find out
> who `owns` the IP address that it came from.
> 
>  No damage done...they were blocked by that handy little portsentry I
> installed a while back :)
> 
>  Baz.

You can do
# host -a <ip>
# nslookup <ip>
# dig -x <ip>
# ripe-whois <ip>   (if you have ripe-whois installed, it looks into
		     the European Internet registry)

Jules
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