How to find out where my current website is being hosted?
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February 12th, 2005, 7:04 am
"It's always a long day, 86,400 won't fit into a short."
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February 14th, 2005, 4:10 am
It would be helpful if you told us the domain name 
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February 14th, 2005, 6:34 am
musik wrote:
It would be helpful if you told us the domain name
Yeah, what she said.
"It's always a long day, 86,400 won't fit into a short."
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February 15th, 2005, 1:23 am
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February 15th, 2005, 7:09 am
"It's always a long day, 86,400 won't fit into a short."
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February 15th, 2005, 7:39 am
Hey nice work bro! Do you care to share how you did that? 
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February 15th, 2005, 2:19 pm
It helps to have shell access at one or more of the 13 root nameservers.
Aside from that....
Take the domain name, do a whois query. I do this to verify the person asking actually matches the information I find.
I also run command line whois queries on my FBSD boxes -- they do deep searches by default.
Then I run dig on the domain name. Comes up with cached IP.
Then I run whois -h whois.arin.net <IP>
And it shows me who actually owns the netblock. Cuts out the middle man of finding out who resells for whom, who resells for whom.
The next step is really just to bring the whole thing back into full circle.
Ifyou have been playing along with the home version of the game, you'll see a section on the last whois regarding a netblock breakdown if you contact the rwhois owned by GNAX. This is done by groups which own large netblocks and "rent" out address space.
The results of a lookup on GNAX's rhwois;
You will note the name of the company that this person uses 'VSHosting' duplicated in the resource record of the initial lookup (whois) of his domain. Full circle.
It's really that simple.
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Aside from that....
Take the domain name, do a whois query. I do this to verify the person asking actually matches the information I find.
I also run command line whois queries on my FBSD boxes -- they do deep searches by default.
Then I run dig on the domain name. Comes up with cached IP.
Then I run whois -h whois.arin.net <IP>
And it shows me who actually owns the netblock. Cuts out the middle man of finding out who resells for whom, who resells for whom.
The next step is really just to bring the whole thing back into full circle.
Ifyou have been playing along with the home version of the game, you'll see a section on the last whois regarding a netblock breakdown if you contact the rwhois owned by GNAX. This is done by groups which own large netblocks and "rent" out address space.
The results of a lookup on GNAX's rhwois;
Code: [ Select ]
root@FOO:~# telnet rwhois.gnax.net 4321
Trying 209.51.128.40...
Connected to rwhois.gnax.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
%rwhois V-1.5:003fff:00 rwhois.gnax.net (by Network Solutions, Inc. V-1.5.7.3)
63.247.85.242
network:Class-Name:network
network:ID:410.63.247.64.0/19
network:Auth-Area:63.247.64.0/19
network:Network-Name:VSHosting-631
network:IP-Network:63.247.85.240/29
network:Organization;I:VSHosting
network:Tech-Contact;I:engineering@gnax.net
network:Admin-Contact;I:engineering@gnax.net
network:Created:20031114
network:Updated:20031114
network:Updated-By:hostmaster@gnax.net
%ok
Trying 209.51.128.40...
Connected to rwhois.gnax.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
%rwhois V-1.5:003fff:00 rwhois.gnax.net (by Network Solutions, Inc. V-1.5.7.3)
63.247.85.242
network:Class-Name:network
network:ID:410.63.247.64.0/19
network:Auth-Area:63.247.64.0/19
network:Network-Name:VSHosting-631
network:IP-Network:63.247.85.240/29
network:Organization;I:VSHosting
network:Tech-Contact;I:engineering@gnax.net
network:Admin-Contact;I:engineering@gnax.net
network:Created:20031114
network:Updated:20031114
network:Updated-By:hostmaster@gnax.net
%ok
- root@FOO:~# telnet rwhois.gnax.net 4321
- Trying 209.51.128.40...
- Connected to rwhois.gnax.net.
- Escape character is '^]'.
- %rwhois V-1.5:003fff:00 rwhois.gnax.net (by Network Solutions, Inc. V-1.5.7.3)
- 63.247.85.242
- network:Class-Name:network
- network:ID:410.63.247.64.0/19
- network:Auth-Area:63.247.64.0/19
- network:Network-Name:VSHosting-631
- network:IP-Network:63.247.85.240/29
- network:Organization;I:VSHosting
- network:Tech-Contact;I:engineering@gnax.net
- network:Admin-Contact;I:engineering@gnax.net
- network:Created:20031114
- network:Updated:20031114
- network:Updated-By:hostmaster@gnax.net
- %ok
You will note the name of the company that this person uses 'VSHosting' duplicated in the resource record of the initial lookup (whois) of his domain. Full circle.
It's really that simple.
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"It's always a long day, 86,400 won't fit into a short."
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February 15th, 2005, 2:46 pm
Nice one, well you learn something new everyday
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