Monks,

Does anybody know of a way that I can retrieve the email address of the system admin using whois (or any other utility) if I only have the ip address? I can't use Net::Whois because it only allows you to query by domain name.

For example, if I did a whois for the ip address 206.170.14.76 (www.perlmonks.com) at http://www.arin.net/whois/index.html, I get the below response. From here I want to extract the email address of ip-admin@PBI.NET to include in my abuse report. Any ideas on how I can do this?

TIA

-Dru 
Union Partners Network (NETBLK-PBI-CUSTNET-3322)
   555 Howard Street Suite 201
   San Francisco, CA 94105
   US

   Netname: PBI-CUSTNET-3322
   Netblock: 206.170.14.0 - 206.170.15.255

   Coordinator:
      Pacific Bell Internet  (PIA2-ORG-ARIN)  ip-admin@PBI.NET
      888-212-5411

   Record last updated on 27-Jan-1999.
   Database last updated on 8-Aug-2001 23:09:21 EDT.

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In reply to Retrieve an email address of sysadmin only knowing the IP address by dru145

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