Automated Abuse Lookup Script

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danodemano
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Automated Abuse Lookup Script

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Alright folks, so here is what I am trying to do. Basically, I am attempting to create an automated abuse reporting script for my guestbook (that I will likely later port to other some things). I would be happy to include the code here though I don't believe it is really needed for this question. At the moment, I am doing abuse lookups against the abuse.net servers to attempt to find the abuse contact for a given domain. This works great and as of yet I don't have any problems with it. However, there are a fair number of IP addresses that don't resolve to a hostname and this is where my problem lies. I can't query abuse.net as it only has lookups for hostnames. What I need is a way to query Arin, DnsTools, or some other repository to be able to track down an abuse contact for an IP address alone. I have been searching for about a week now trying to find a script that already had this feature but have not found anything of any value. I'm not even sure if this is the best place to post this question so I will apologize in advance if I am out of line here. Any help would be appreciated, even a nudge in the right direction would be welcome! :D Thanks for your time!
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Dan
P.S. I suppose I should mention that I am doing this all in PHP though I suppose that's assumed as I am posting here. :P
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