how do i find out who the isp is for ip address

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Mon Dec 8 22:58:12 UTC 2003


Diane Amand wrote:

>Hello
>
>Resently my computor was invaded while I was on the internet, even with my
>fiewall.. and they were cathering information. I shut the computor down...
>Since then, there have been many attemps to gain access to my computor..I
>have Nortonv Internet security and antivirus on my Computor. I have gathered
>many ip adresses. My question is who do i report this to if one of the
>envaders  is my isp, and how do I find who the isp is for these other
>addresses. I hope you can advise me.
>
This isn't really relevant to DNS/BIND, but you could probably use the 
"whois" utilities of the various RIRs (Regional Internet Registry) such 
as ARIN, RIPE, APNIC or LACNIC. See, for example, 
http://www.arin.net/abuse.html and http://www.arin.net/whois/index.html.

As for the invaders being your ISP, do you really mean that, or do you 
mean that some other _subscriber_ to your ISP tried to hack your box?
                                                                         
                                                               - Kevin





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