full-disclosure - Re: www.whois.sc (Florian Weimer)

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Date: Wed Jun 15 12:21:00 2005
From: worried at gmail.com (mike bailey)
Subject: Re: www.whois.sc (Florian Weimer)

Florian Weimer Said:
> I have recently seen a web page www.whois.sc. One of the features that
> they have is a "reverse ip" lookup. With that tool I can lookup the IP
> address of a server and it will return how many domains are hosted on it.
>
> What I have been trying to figure out is how does that work? I did a
> tcpdump on the server that I looked up and it didnt see any abnormal
> packets. Does anyone have any idea how that feature works?

I know the website http://whois.webhosting.info also offers this feature. I've come to the conclusion that they just spider the web for domain names, obtain a dns record, and then store the result in a database. whois.webhost.info also offers the ability to check what company owns that ip block. Which is probably just returned from whois.arin.net . But it may also take reverse dns replies into consideration.

Love,
Mike Bailey