BS: I have an IP number - but who it is?

Subject: I have an IP number - but who it is?
From: Zebedee
Date: 03 Dec 00 - 12:51 PM

This question comes from a thread in the help forum (click here)about the Zone Alarm software.

I use zone alarm and sometimes get messages that a certain server has tried to access my computer. I'm sure that the vast majority of these aren't malicious, but it'd be nice to know their origin.

I've tried using the 'ping' program included in Windows 95, but always get a 'connection timed out' response.

Any thoughts?

Ed

Subject: RE: BS: I have an IP number - but who it is?
From: Jeri
Date: 03 Dec 00 - 12:53 PM

You can use ARIN Whois? for what is called "reverse DNS lookup."

I get so many "blocked access" messages, I've quit looking them up. An awful lot of them were AOL or Yahoo.

Subject: RE: BS: I have an IP number - but who it is?
From: catspaw49
Date: 03 Dec 00 - 01:08 PM

I've been using Z-A for a long time now and at first I was amazed, then curious, but at this point, I get so many hits it'd be a project to trace them all. Like Jeri said, a lot are from the AOL/Yahoo Big Net Groups....Some on shopping, etc. I'm just happy that Z-A works!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: I have an IP number - but who it is?
From: Zebedee
Date: 03 Dec 00 - 01:08 PM

Thanks for that Jeri.

I tried it with the Mudcat IP (from the Zone Alarm help thread) and sure enough came up with ONSTAGE MEDIA.

Now you and I know that Onstage Media is Max's company. If I hadn't known that the information wouldn't help. It wouldn't have told me that it came from mudcat.org.

Is there any way of knowing that?

Thanks again

Ed

Subject: RE: BS: I have an IP number - but who it is?
From: Jeri
Date: 03 Dec 00 - 02:06 PM

Type the IP number into the address block instead of the URL for the web page.

Although I should have thought of this before (duh), it doesn't always work, and the ARIN site can tell you who's responsible for the IP number.

Subject: RE: BS: I have an IP number - but who it is?
From: Zebedee
Date: 03 Dec 00 - 02:32 PM

Jeri,

Don't you think I tried that?

Using the Mudcat IP as as example again, I just got a 'Username/Password' window with no clues as to the site name.

Ed

Subject: RE: BS: I have an IP number - but who it is?
From: Jeri
Date: 03 Dec 00 - 02:44 PM

Sorry, Ed. I had no idea what you'd tried, and I had no idea you'd get the password thingie. I also wrote "it doesn't always work."

When you type in the IP number you gave in the Help Forum, you do get that message. My guess is Max might have *part* of Mudcat there - as in the actual database. If you change the last number to a "5" so it's 204.108.149.105, you get Mudcat.

Subject: RE: BS: I have an IP number - but who it is?
From: Zebedee
Date: 03 Dec 00 - 02:47 PM

Jeri,

I hope I haven't annoyed you - just reporting what happened

Ed

Subject: RE: BS: I have an IP number - but who it is?
From: Jeri
Date: 03 Dec 00 - 03:00 PM

No problem, Ed, and I hope I didn't insult your intelligence. Sometimes things really are too simple for people to think of, and I'm good at the simple stuff...sometimes.

Oh well, maybe someone else has an idea.

Subject: RE: BS: I have an IP number - but who it is?
From: Brendy
Date: 04 Dec 00 - 04:13 AM

Network-tools.com

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