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Date:	Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:36:58 -0800
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Unwanted Visitors

In <161019.63709.qm@web81410.mail.mud.yahoo.com>, on 01/25/08
at 11:15 AM, J R FOX said:

Hi,

>now reminded that they are not the reference most
>often likely to be useful for me, because they don't
>resolve dotted addresses.

That's not the job whois is designed for. What you want is a reverse DNS
lookup.

[d:\tmp]rdns 222.186.12.197
dig ptr 197.12.186.222.in-addr.arpa

; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> ptr 197.12.186.222.in-addr.arpa
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 47484
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;197.12.186.222.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
186.222.in-addr.arpa. 1800 IN SOA nmc1.ptt.js.cn.
postmaster.nmc1.ptt.js.cn. 2008010600 86400 7200 2592000
3600

;; Query time: 342 msec
;; SERVER: 207.217.126.81#53(207.217.126.81)
;; WHEN: Fri Jan 25 11:30:01 2008
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 106

This says you have friends in China.

There are web sites that will do these lookups for you. ZoneEdit has a
page for this.

Steven

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