What web address belongs to an IP address?

[xxx]

If you have xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, and you want to know what web address it belongs to, how can you do that? It would be www.?????.??? (http://www.?????.???)

Not really a linux question I guess, but I'd really like to know.

[FoBoT]

um , type it into your web browser and see what you get
you don't have to just put url's into your browser

[ 25 July 2001: Message edited by: FoBoT ]

[Pras]

Not all ip addresses map to a website. Some could be just computers connected to the internet. If you want to perform a name resolution, try the 'nslookup ip_address' command. You can also use the hostname instead of ip address.

Another tool you can try is traceroute.

[xxx]

sorry. I wasn't really clear I guess. What I'm looking for is the address of the people hosting the site.
If we have a site www.somesite.com (http://www.somesite.com) and company xyz is hosting that site, how can I find out who company xyz is?

[Saptech]

You would need to do a whois www.somesite.com, (http://www.somesite.com,) if you don't have the command whois then do a search for a whois website that will let u find the info.

[evulish]

internic.com/org/net/or whatever (i forget what it is) has whois searches....

[Chatterjee]

you can use the whois utility at arin.net