Looking up an ip adress...

[JoeTheHoe]

Ok, so one day I'm browsin around and find this site:
http://www.dnsstuff.com/
which is cool and all, but I was wondering if there is a command in kubuntu that does the same thing, as in u enter a ip address or a domain name and it outputs info about the server, like when it was created and such...

Thanks in advance :-)

[Sequent]

Re: Looking up an ip adress...

Open up a konsole and type whois dnsstuff.com (or whatever). Is this what you're looking for?

[JoeTheHoe]

Re: Looking up an ip adress...

lol thanks....i shoulda thought that whois would mean whois....lol

[Teppic]

Re: Looking up an ip adress...

The command 'dig' will give you forward and reverse DNS lookups as well (Normally part of a Bind-Utils package)

[devnulljp]

Re: Looking up an ip adress...

...or if you don't want as much info from dig you can try host

host someserver.somedomain

which will spit out the ip address(es) and maybe mx info
e.g.

$ host google.com
google.com has address 64.233.187.99
google.com has address 72.14.207.99
google.com has address 64.233.167.99
google.com mail is handled by 10 smtp2.google.com.
google.com mail is handled by 10 smtp3.google.com.
google.com mail is handled by 10 smtp4.google.com.
google.com mail is handled by 10 smtp1.google.com.