Hi, thanks for bringing your question to answers.google.
What you are asking is to resolve the IP address to a text domain
name, then find who owns it.
In this instance the ownership is pretty clear without going any
further than looking at the resolved address.
IP Address: 205.188.116.196
Hostname: cache-dtc-ad02.proxy.aol.com
http://www.webyield.net/cgi-bin/ipwhois.cgi?addr=205.188.116.196
You can do this part yourself right on your Windows computer by
opening a DOS window.
On modern operating systems simply hit the ?windows/Start? key, click
on ?Run? and, if it isn?t already in the dialog box, enter CMD, press
enter.
This should bring up a plain text window, but if it doesn?t, use
another method to open a DOS window.
Once there at a command prompt (e.g. ?C:\?), enter this string
(without the quotes):
?ping 205.188.116.196 ?a?
The ?-a? switch tells the computer to first identify the remote
computer by resolving the numeric IP address where possible. This
saves you the trouble of finding some site on the Internet which will
resolve IP addresses.
In this case the response is:
C:\ping -a 205.188.116.196
Pinging cache-dtc-ad02.proxy.aol.com [205.188.116.196] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Ping statistics for 205.188.116.196:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),
What all that means is that the site isn?t replying which confirms
that it is probably either password protected or a simple data cash,
or both.
The bottom line is that this is just another server in the service of
AOL and it is virtually impossible to know exactly what it is doing
but, if you are an AOL subscriber it is as innocuous as anything else
on AOL.
The critical point to note in the resolved address is that the base
address is simply aol.com.
If you would like to see some details about the PING command, simply
go to your DOS window and enter ping/?, for example,
C:\ping/?
Usage: ping [-t] [-a] [-n count] [-l size] [-f] [-i TTL] [-v TOS]
[-r count] [-s count] [[-j host-list] | [-k host-list]]
[-w timeout] target_name
Options:
-t Ping the specified host until stopped.
To see statistics and continue - type Control-Break;
To stop - type Control-C.
-a Resolve addresses to hostnames.
-n count Number of echo requests to send.
-l size Send buffer size.
-f Set Don't Fragment flag in packet.
-i TTL Time To Live.
-v TOS Type Of Service.
-r count Record route for count hops.
-s count Timestamp for count hops.
-j host-list Loose source route along host-list.
-k host-list Strict source route along host-list.
-w timeout Timeout in milliseconds to wait for each reply.
If you want to know, in general, how to identify who owns a particular
address if it isn?t pretty obvious from the resolved address, then go
to one of the many ?whois? sites.
In this case, if you try www.whois.net, you get this result:
http://www.whois.net/whois.cgi2?d=cache-dtc-ad02.proxy.aol.com
?WHOIS information for aol.com:
[whois.registrar.aol.com]
Domain Name: AOL.COM
Registrant:
America Online, Inc.
22000 AOL Way
Dulles, VA 20166
US
Created on..............: May 17 2004 12:34PM
Expires on..............: Nov 23 2005 7:02AM
Record Last Updated on..: Nov 24 2004 12:21AM
Registrar...............: America Online, Inc.
http://whois.registrar.aol.com/whois/
Administrative, Technical Contact:
America Online, Inc.
22000 AOL Way
Dulles, VA 20166
US
Tel. 703 265 4670
Email: domains@aol.net
Domain servers:
DNS-01.NS.AOL.COM
152.163.159.232
DNS-02.NS.AOL.COM
205.188.157.232
DNS-06.NS.AOL.COM
149.174.211.8
DNS-07.NS.AOL.COM
64.12.51.132
WHOIS data is only provided by this server for domains ending
in .COM, .NET, and .ORG that were registered through
America Online, Inc's Domain Registration Service.?
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