Norton Internet Security

[Operations]

Whenever my security program blocks a computer from connecting to my computer remotely it gives me a number like this one (66.161.183.37) for example as the culprit. Is there anyway to findout if this is in fact a computer or site that I had one time allowed or what. I'm not sure if this is the right way to phrase this but is it possible to do a 'Whois' on this address and if so how do I do that. I just want to make sure I'm not losing valuable updates or something like that.


Thanks...

[alphadesk]

You can use this to search an IP.
http://www.arin.net/whois/index.html


Search results for: 66.161.183.37

Fuse Internet Access (NETBLK-FUSE-NET-BLK-3)
209 W. Seventh St. 121-550
Cincinnati, OH 45202
US

Netname: FUSE-NET-BLK-3
Netblock: 66.161.128.0 - 66.161.255.255
Maintainer: FIAI

Coordinator:
ZoomTown.Com Operations Center (FIA-ORG-ARIN) hostmaster@FUSE.NET
(513) 565-9707

Domain System inverse mapping provided by:

NS1.FUSE.NET 216.68.1.100
NS2.FUSE.NET 216.68.2.100

ADDRESSES WITHIN THIS BLOCK ARE NON-PORTABLE

Record last updated on 21-Mar-2002.
Database last updated on 6-Jul-2002 19:59:31 EDT.

[Operations]

This issue bothers me everytime I see one of those alerts.

[RSaucier]

If anyone's interested, after finding that the log processing program I used (WebTrends) was missing quite a few IP block owners, I wrote a little command-line 'whois' that will take an ASCII file of IP addresses and retrieve the block owner information from ARIN, RIPE or APNIC as appropriate.

You can downloade it from http://www.saucier-pages.com/whois_b.zip

Download, unzip and run for instructions.

Please, no comments on my site...it's uglier than sin :) and was originally created to host some template files for Poser.

If you find the utility helpful, shoot me a note.

Robert

[grendel]

OK, Robert... this is the second rump-kicking little program that I've downloaded from you this morning! :)

Very nice tools!

*can't wait to start playing!!

Thanks bunches!! :D

[RSaucier]

:) Thanks! I hope they're useful for you!

Robert