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Subject: Re: Whois 216.46.252.242?
From: Gabe Turner (gabeMSI.UMN.EDU)
Date: Wed Aug 23 2000 - 15:22:28 CDT

Man, just as I had a reply all ready, you beat me to it :) In general, if
you want to lookup an IP in the US, arin.net is your server. For Asia, use
whois.apnic.net and for Europe use whois.ripe.net.

Gabe

On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 04:17:18PM -0400, Aaron Howard wrote:
> According to http://www.arin.net/whois/index.html that IP belongs to:
>
> Data Return (NETBLK-DATARETURN-1BLK)
> 222 W. Las Colinas Blvd. Suite 450
> Irving, TX 75039
> us
>
> Netname: DATARETURN-1BLK
> Netblock: 216.46.224.0 - 216.46.255.255
> Maintainer: DATR
>
> Coordinator:
> Data Return (ZD16-ARIN) IP.Engineeringdatareturn.com
> 972-869-0770
>
> Domain System inverse mapping provided by:
>
> NS1.DATARETURN.COM 209.12.95.2
> NS2.DATARETURN.COM 209.12.95.102
>
> Record last updated on 19-Jul-2000.
> Database last updated on 23-Aug-2000 07:05:15 EDT.
>
> --
> Aaron P. Howard
> CCNA, CNE, MCSE, RHCE
> ahowardnoerrors.com
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Faber Fedor
> >Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 1:25 PM
> >To: FOCUS-LINUX
> >Subject: Whois 216.46.252.242?
> >
> >
> >I'm setting up a mail server for a client. While looking into a few
> >problems, I noticed that user "unknown" at 216.46.252.242 kept
> >connecting and dropping the connection. This data is in the
> >maillog and
> >his protocol is, duh, smtp and it all occured at approx. 5:20 this
> >morning.
> >
> >Being the curious type, I went looking for him. I can traceroute to
> >him, but I can't seem to find a nameserver record anywhere for him or
> >for his network (216.26.252.0).
> >
> >How do I find out who this person/network/domain is?
> >
> >--
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Faber Fedor, RHCE, MCSE, MCT
> >LinuxNJ.com - "Linux and Open Source solutions for New Jersey"
> > 

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Gabe Turner				       |  	   X-President,
UNIX Systems Administrator,		       | Assoc. for Computing Machinery
U of M Supercomputing Institute for	       |    Univerisity of Minnesota
Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation    |       doppacm.cs.umn.edu

"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman
 church, by the Greek church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church
 that I know of.  My own mind is my church."
						- Thomas Paine
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