Help needed regarding DNS server query

Dear All,
I want to know about DNS server queries, and what are all information
we can get it from a DNS server. Actually I am intrested in finding
the region of given IP address.

What I need to do now is to identify the given IP address is from
which country.
For This I need to determine the IP ranges allotted be country as well
as the domain extensions (say .co.in for India). Then I will keep this
information in a table.
So that against a given IP address I can search the table, and can
identify it country and region.

So now, I want to know from where I can get this information about IP
address ranges and domain extenstion, to store in table. Do you have
any idea.

Waiting for some +ve responses.

On 2004-08-10, Rajat <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> What I need to do now is to identify the given IP address is from
> which country.

There was a rough table somewhere, I think that you can hit google
and find something, but basically there is _no_ guarantee that an IP
is coming from a specific country.

Davide

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(E-Mail Removed) (Rajat) said:
>I want to know about DNS server queries, and what are all information
>we can get it from a DNS server. Actually I am intrested in finding
>the region of given IP address.

I used to work for a multinational company that has a class B (64k
addresses) address block (and then some). This class B block was
of course registered to the HQ location - but addresses from within
that range were used everywhere within the company (Europe, Americas,
Asia-Pacific). Name lookups for the addresses returned just names
ending with the companys global .com domain name. Earlier, the
subdomains within the company top-level domain did somewhat indicated
the whereabouts of a given address, but later even that information
was removed.

Nowadays, I'd expect that most of the company internal addresses
(workstations and such) are private, and f.ex. a web server visited
by user of one of these machines would only show the company proxy
address.
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Rajat wrote:

> Dear All,
> I want to know about DNS server queries, and what are all information
> we can get it from a DNS server. Actually I am intrested in finding
> the region of given IP address.
>
> What I need to do now is to identify the given IP address is from
> which country.
> For This I need to determine the IP ranges allotted be country as well
> as the domain extensions (say .co.in for India). Then I will keep this
> information in a table.
> So that against a given IP address I can search the table, and can
> identify it country and region.
>
> So now, I want to know from where I can get this information about IP
> address ranges and domain extenstion, to store in table. Do you have
> any idea.
>
The whois database does part of what you want, but as mentioned in the
preceding posts there isn't a sure way to get determine geographic origin.

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http://umgawa.bands.uiuc.edu/~fsiler/

Ya I wanna go for whois server lookup option. I have checked it as,
whois <Host_IP_address>
It is providing the relevent information.
So now I want to implement same kind of service, Can you tell me about
the query packet format and response format, so that I can query the
whois server and parse the response to get the relevent information.

"Franklin M. Siler" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<cfc98s$gpv$(E-Mail Removed)>...
> Rajat wrote:
>
> > Dear All,
> > I want to know about DNS server queries, and what are all information
> > we can get it from a DNS server. Actually I am intrested in finding
> > the region of given IP address.
> >
> > What I need to do now is to identify the given IP address is from
> > which country.
> > For This I need to determine the IP ranges allotted be country as well
> > as the domain extensions (say .co.in for India). Then I will keep this
> > information in a table.
> > So that against a given IP address I can search the table, and can
> > identify it country and region.
> >
> > So now, I want to know from where I can get this information about IP
> > address ranges and domain extenstion, to store in table. Do you have
> > any idea.
> >
> The whois database does part of what you want, but as mentioned in the
> preceding posts there isn't a sure way to get determine geographic origin.

On 11 Aug 2004 07:24:38 -0700, (E-Mail Removed) (Rajat) wrote:

>So now I want to implement same kind of service, Can you tell me about
>the query packet format and response format, so that I can query the
>whois server and parse the response to get the relevent information.

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2167.txt

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Ken <ng3122@ke9nr.#nospam#.net> wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed)>. ..
> On 11 Aug 2004 07:24:38 -0700, (E-Mail Removed) (Rajat) wrote:
>
> >So now I want to implement same kind of service, Can you tell me about
> >the query packet format and response format, so that I can query the
> >whois server and parse the response to get the relevent information.
>
> http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2167.txt

hi,
I made some queries to the whois servers, but whatever response I got
is in human readable text formate. More over the response format of
each server is of different form. So I was not able to parse it and
get the relevent information.

I searched the net, that if we can get the response in proper xml
format. So that I can easily parse it. I got one mail in a message
archive, in that it was stated that if we sand whois query in XML
format then will get the response in XML format only. Other wise
simple text response will be returned.

Does any body know that how we can query the whois srevr in xml
format??