Re: www.whois.sc

[Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de>]

* Jimmy Stewpot:

> 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 suppose they regularly download zone files (as published by Verisign
and others), and perform A record lookups on all listed domains.
Probably they try domains prefixed with "www" as well.

A good litmus test is the output from 217.16.28.239.  Does it include
fark.ru and newsteam.ru besides pravda.ru?  What about all the
pravda.com subdomains?  (As far as I know, the RU zone file is not
available to the general public.)
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