how do I decode 157.55.85.212 to a url?

From: CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com <(CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com)>
Date: Fri Feb 11 12:32:48 2000

>Subject: how do I decode 157.55.85.212 to a url?

I don't think it is actually routed anywhere, but it's part
of a block that belongs to Microsoft according to the ARIN
( http;//www.arin.net/whois/ ):

     Microsoft Corporation (NETBLK-MICROSOFT-BBLK)
        One Microsoft Way
        Redmond, WA 98052

        Netname: MICROSOFT-BBLK
        Netblock: 157.54.0.0 - 157.60.0.0

        Coordinator:
           Parameshwaran, Krishnan (KP26-ARIN) KrishnaP_at_MICROSOFT.COM
           (206) 882-8080

        Record last updated on 14-Oct-1998.
        Database last updated on 11-Feb-2000 05:36:03 EDT.

>I have this URL and I'd like to find their netaddress n.n.n.n, how?
>******http://opt-inbroadcasts.net/remove/remove4.html
>Apparently this is a spam gatherer as I got mail with this as the way
>to get on their remove list. I suspect it's really a collect list.

$ mu nslookup opt-inbroadcasts.net
Server: LOCALHOST
Address: 127.0.0.1

Name: OPT-INBROADCASTS.NET
Address: 208.26.83.110

$ whois/host=whois.networksolutions.com opt-inbroadcasts.net
Registrant:
opt-inbroadcasts.net (OPT-INBROADCASTS2-DOM)
   4400 NW 19th Ave
   Suite B
   Pompano, FL 33064
   US

>Also while looking around (with arp) I have a few address I don't know
>and would like to translate that to a url or domain name.

Doing a reverse nslookup may work, *if* they've got a PTR record and
they haven't chosen to purposefully put wrong information in the PTR record.

A traceroute may sometimes give useful results if the IP address
is actually in the routing tables. If it's not in the routing tables, you
may as well pop Elvis into the 8-track and listen to "Return to Sender."

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