[SWLUG] Locating domain names?

[Neil Jones]

On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 11:33, Foeh Mannay (SWLUG) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > You have an IP address. You think there may be a web domain parked on
> > it. Is there any way to find out what that domain(s) may be on the
> > address or even DNS servers.
> 
> I don't think it works like that. As anyone on any top level domain could
> choose to point their DNS entries at any IP address they like on the
> Internet, I don't think there's any way to trace it back. It would involve
> getting zone transfers for every domain name on the 'net, which isn't
> going to happen.
> 
> The reverse DNS, as you've already discovered, will be owned by whoever
> owns the IP range it's sat on, and if anything will only return the name
> the hosting company use for it. There's no requirement to tie a reverse
> DNS to every forward DNS entry.
> 
> Sorry, I don't think it's doable!
> 
> Foeh

Thanks that is what I suspected, but I thought I would ask because some
of the people in our group are extremely smart with these things.

Neil Jones
Neil at nwjones.demon.co.uk