is there a way to tell which hosting company a site uses?

how to do this?

[javahava]

is there a way to tell which hosting company a site uses? is there some kind of reverse host lookup somewhere?

[Eltiti]

The easiest thing to do would probably be a "tracert".

Go to your DOS box and type:

tracert www.example.com

and the system will show you the "hops" (Internet nodes). The last hop(s) often indicate the name of the hosting company.

HTH

[abbeyvet]

netcraft.com will give you the names and details of nameserver and net block owners and lots of other information.

[Chris_R]

ping the ip - or look at an advanced whois stuff - then look up the IP with ARIN

[Eltiti]

ping the ip

You mean: ping the domain to find the IP, right? ;-)

[javahava]

great! thanks guys!