how do I decode 157.55.85.212 to a url?

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
Date: Fri Feb 11 12:47:35 2000

>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.

One way is to type 'ping opt-inbroadcasts.net' which will look up the name
in DNS and then try to send it an ICMP echo message. The version of ping
I've got on FreeBSD also prints out the IP address when it does this. It gives
208.26.83.110 as its IP address. Then there is the 'whois' command that
will tell you where the domain is registers (you can also goto
www.internic.net for this)

--Chuck
Received on Fri Feb 11 2000 - 12:47:35 GMT

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