Query an Internet registry database in order to determine the organization
or individual responsible for a specified IP address or IP address range.
Using custom queries, you can retrieve information from Internet registries
for geographies other than the default Réseaux IP Européens (RIPE) registry,
which is the regional Internet registry for Europe, the Middle East and parts
of Central Asia.
- From the Network Hop View or Network Views network map,
select the device to query.
To select multiple devices, press Ctrl.
- Right-click one of the selected devices and choose .
- From the WebTools Menu click Whois
lookup.
- In the Whois Lookup
Tool window
complete the relevant fields.
- Query for
- Specify the IP addresses or hostnames of the devices to query. Specify a single IP address,
hostname, or subnet, or a comma-separated list of IP addresses or hostnames. This field also accepts
a search string.
- Database
- Specify the Internet registry database to query. The following databases may be queried:
- AFRINIC: Africa Network Information Center, the regional Internet registry for Africa.
- ARIN: American Registry for Internet Numbers, the regional Internet registry for Canada, many
islands in the Caribbean and North Atlantic ocean, and the United States
- APNIC: Asia Pacific Network Information Centre, the regional Internet registry for the
Asia-Pacific region.
- JPIRR: Japan Network Information Center, the regional Internet registry for Japan.
- LACNIC: Latin American and Caribbean Internet Addresses Registry, the regional Internet registry
for Latin America and the Caribbean.
- RADB: Routing Assets Database is a public registry of routing information for networks in the
Internet.
- RIPE: Réseaux IP Européens, the regional Internet registry for Europe, the Middle East and parts
of Central Asia
- VERIO: Verio is a global IP service provider.
- Send: E-Mail To…
- Specify whether the results should be emailed to one or more listed recipients. This option is
not selected by default.
- Recipients
- Specify a comma-separated list of recipients to which the results of the tool should be sent.
This field is only displayed if Send: E-Mail To… is selected.
- Click Start to launch the tool with the
parameters specified.
The results of the operation appear
in one or more separate browser windows.