Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!
Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!
-
Congratulations strongm on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!
Finding out url name from an IP address?
- Thread starter JamesNash
- Start date
You can use Reverse DNS for this.
You may not get the proper URL though. The site URL of lots of hosts resolve to the same Ip number, so a reverse lookup of these don't work too well. For example the sites I tried at Lycos UK resolve to 212.78.204.20 - including my site there at
Reverse DNS lookup on 212.78.204.20 resolves to members.tmm.lyceu.net putting that into a browser address takes you to
My own server, is currently at 4.5.247.99 A reverse DNS lookup resolves to wbar1.sea1-4-5-247-099.sea1.elnk.dsl.genuity.net Putting that into the address bar,takes you back to my site.
There are lots of tools for doing this sort of thing at
Ray
You may not get the proper URL though. The site URL of lots of hosts resolve to the same Ip number, so a reverse lookup of these don't work too well. For example the sites I tried at Lycos UK resolve to 212.78.204.20 - including my site there at
Reverse DNS lookup on 212.78.204.20 resolves to members.tmm.lyceu.net putting that into a browser address takes you to
My own server, is currently at 4.5.247.99 A reverse DNS lookup resolves to wbar1.sea1-4-5-247-099.sea1.elnk.dsl.genuity.net Putting that into the address bar,takes you back to my site.
There are lots of tools for doing this sort of thing at
Ray
a quick way is to go to and use their TraceRoute link. it takes an ip address and resolves it for you.
the only problem is that if you run it long after it came to your attention and it is a DHCP assigned address you may get incorrect info at the final location. it will however get you to the isp of the address.
whenever i see an unknown ip accessing my machine i run a program called NeoTrace that gives me a lot more details.
the only problem is that if you run it long after it came to your attention and it is a DHCP assigned address you may get incorrect info at the final location. it will however get you to the isp of the address.
whenever i see an unknown ip accessing my machine i run a program called NeoTrace that gives me a lot more details.
- Status
Similar threads
- Locked
- Question
- Locked
- Question