Hello Barry1234,
Thank you for your question.
There are a number of "whois" tools and web sites that provide
information on the owners of IP addresses. One I like to use often is
called Netlab and is a free utility that runs under Windows. It does
not seem to be updated recently and may not run under XP or newer
operating systems. Consequently, I have provided you with both links
to other Whois utilities and web sites where you can perform your own
queries in the future.
NoNags lists several free Whois tools here:
http://www.ded.com/nonags/index.html
CNET lists 136 Whois tools here:
http://download.com.com/3120-20-0.html?qt=whois&tg=dl-2001
The Sam Spade pages have a Whois tool:
http://www.samspade.org/
And The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) has a page of
tools available here:
http://www.arin.net/tools/index.html
Searching ARIN directly or through any of my utilities for
65.59.58.140 brings up the following information:
OrgName: Level 3 Communications, Inc.
OrgID: LVLT
NetRange: 65.56.0.0 - 65.59.255.255
CIDR: 65.56.0.0/14
NetName: LC-ORG-ARIN-BLK2
NetHandle: NET-65-56-0-0-1
Parent: NET-65-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: NS1.LEVEL3.NET
NameServer: NS2.LEVEL3.NET
Comment:
RegDate: 2001-09-21
Updated: 2002-08-08
TechHandle: LC-ORG-ARIN
TechName: level Communications
TechPhone: +1-877-453-8353
TechEmail: ipaddressing@level3.com
# ARIN Whois database, last updated 2002-12-28 20:00
# Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's Whois database.
Sometimes there is enough information to determine if this is a fixed
IP address assigned to one user as in the case of a fixed IP address
ADSL account. In this case, I see no indication of that. If the
address is from an assignable pool of addresses that are temporarily
assigned to a dial-up connection, you need the exact time of the
transgressions or attempted transgressions for the service provider,
in this case Level 3, to determine who was connected to that IP
address at that point in time.
So we know the IP address you have interest in came from an address
assigned to Level 3. Going to their web pages, I found the following
contact information for you.
http://www.level3.com/
Contact Us
Corporate Headquarters
Level 3 Communications, Inc.
1025 Eldorado Boulevard Broomfield, CO 80021
Tel: 1 (720) 888-1000
Public Relations
Josh Howell
Group Vice President
Global Corporate Marketing
E-mail
Tel: 1 (720) 888-2517
Paul Lonnegren
Director
Media Relations
E-mail
Tel: 1 (720) 888-6099
Abuse Issues
To report spam and other abuse issues.
http://www.level3.com/mail/abuse.html
Now, you did not mention why you wanted this information Barry, but if
it is an abuse issue, the above contact page will be best able to
assist you. In MOST instances, a service provider that attempts to
assist you with an abuse issue will desire a copy of the logs showing
attempted intrusions. These logs are commonly generated by firewall
programs. For example, I am currently using Zone Alarm to protect my
computer from intrusions, though I have used successfully Sygate and
Sygate Pro, Outpost and Outpost Pro and there are several others
highly rated and some free for personal use. If you do not have a
firewall, do go to Zone Labs at
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/home.jsp and get the free
personal version.
There is a program for analyzing the log files from Zone Alarm that
will look up the IP addresses and even create reports you can use to
send to a service provider to report abuse. These reports will be for
intrusion attempts into your computer, not to report SPAM filling your
email box. But if intrusions are your concern, and you decide to try
Zone Alarm, pick up a copy of ZoneLog analyzer to test as well.
http://zonelog.co.uk/
The logs kept will show the accurate time, ports used and IP address
of the attempted intruder. If there are repeated attempts and not just
one or two that might have happened accidentally or in the normal
course of using the Internet, most service providers will look into
your request to investigate the abuse.
A service provider might also investigate excessive SPAM that is being
generated from this IP address if that is the case. In this case, they
may desire to see complete email headers from the SPAM you are
receiving. Depending on the email client you use, displaying this
information can be done in different ways. You can also forward to
them a copy of the SPAM should they request it and they should be able
to uncover the complete header information. But, for one example, if
you are using Outlook Express for your email client, you can RIGHT
CLICK a message and choose properties. Then choose the details tab and
you will see the header information that is not normally displayed.
Regarding Internet Abuse
There are a number of resources available on the Internet for learning
about and reporting abuse as well as tools and utilities you might
find helpful.
The Network Abuse Clearinghouse
http://www.abuse.net/
Has a great deal of information.
"The Network Abuse Clearinghouse is intended to help the Internet
community to report and control network abuse and abusive users.
Since the best place to report abusive activity varies from one system
to another, we're trying to keep a master database of reporting
addresses for users throughout the net to use. The database is
provided in three forms:
Via a mail forwarding service
Via a web look-up page
Via a WHOIS server at whois.abuse.net
Via a domain name lookup
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For e-mail users
You can use abuse.net to help forward your complaints to system
managers who can act on them. Please read our description of how to
register for and then use the mail forwarding service."
http://www.abuse.net/howwork.html
"How does the abuse.net mail forwarder work ?
The abuse.net system helps forward messages about abusive activity on
the Internet to people who can do something about it. It's not a
blacklist, nor is it a spam analysis service. It just forwards message
from you to system managers.
It's up to you to determine who should get your complaint..."
You will also find a variety of tools here:
http://www.abuse.net/tools.html
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The DMOZ Open Directory Project has a page of links dealing with
Internet abuse available here:
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Abuse/
Likewise, the Goggle directory for Internet abuse can be found here:
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Internet/Abuse/
Another good page of links is Stop Internet Abuse now at
http://www.conradhubbard.com/StopInternetAbuse.html
I trust my research will help you to report whatever intrusions
prompted your question and will lead to learning more about abuse,
tools to use in combating abuse and reporting the problem you are
experiencing. If a link above should fail to work or my research
require further explanation, please do post a Request for
Clarification.
Best regards,
-=clouseau=-
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