You can do a whois using the ARIN whois server: whois ip.address at whois.arin.net you can also try a traceroute: traceroute ip.address and look at the hops immediately before the IP, that would be the internet provider(s). Adam Maloney Systems Administrator Sihope Communications On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Eric Hillman wrote: > I was sure this subject had come up before, but I can't find any reference to > it -- does anybody have any tips on tracking down an IP address on the Internet > that has no reverse-lookup entry and blocks traceroute? I'm getting an > alarming number of internal attempts to access an outside website without > permission, and I have no idea whether it's some evil spam or just Internet > Explorer Update doing its thing... > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org