[KLUG Members] Who owns a class C ip range?

[Rich Clark]

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Thomas wrote:

> Can anyone tell me how to find out who owns a particular class C IP range?
>
> The IPs in question are 198.66.38.180 and 209.130.29.239.

whois 198.66.38.180

whois 198.66.38.180 -h rwhois.verio.net
Verio Web Hosting (SME) (NETBLK-WH-198-66-38-0-24) WH-198-66-38-0-24
                                                    198.66.38.0 - 
198.66.38.255
Verio Web Hosting (SME) (NETBLK-W043-198-066-000) W043-198-066-000
                                                     198.66.0.0 - 
198.66.63.255
Verio Inc. (NETBLK-VRIO-198-066) VRIO-198-066      198.66.0.0 - 
198.66.255.255


whois 209.130.29.239 -h rwhois.verio.net
Verio Web Hosting (SME) (NETBLK-WH-209-130-29-0-24) WH-209-130-29-0-24
                                                  209.130.29.0 - 
209.130.29.255
Verio Web Hosting (SME) (NETBLK-HWAY-BLK-4) HWAY-BLK-4
                                                  209.130.0.0 - 
209.130.127.255

Verio in both cases.  Notably scummy network with regard to email abuse 
issues, though their track record has improved over the last 6-9 months.

> Also can you tell me how to find out many other interesting facts about this
> network and server?  i.e. uptime.netcraft.com

Beats me.  Might try searching google.com on the single IP, and definitely 
check it in groups.google.com for usenet messages in the 
news.admin.net-abuse hierarchy.

Rich
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on 8/25/04