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312-50V13 · Question #206

Clark, a professional hacker, was hired by an organization lo gather sensitive Information about its competitors surreptitiously. Clark gathers the server IP address of the target organization using…

The correct answer is B. ARIN. ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers) is a regional internet registry providing public databases to retrieve IP address allocation information, network ranges, and registered organization details.

Submitted by cyberguy42· Mar 6, 2026Footprinting and Reconnaissance

Question

Clark, a professional hacker, was hired by an organization lo gather sensitive Information about its competitors surreptitiously. Clark gathers the server IP address of the target organization using Whole footprinting. Further, he entered the server IP address as an input to an online tool to retrieve information such as the network range of the target organization and to identify the network topology and operating system used in the network. What is the online tool employed by Clark in the above scenario?

Options

  • AAOL
  • BARIN
  • CDuckDuckGo
  • DBaidu

How the community answered

(37 responses)
  • B
    95% (35)
  • C
    3% (1)
  • D
    3% (1)

Why each option

ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers) is a regional internet registry providing public databases to retrieve IP address allocation information, network ranges, and registered organization details.

AAOL

AOL (America Online) is an internet service provider and web portal, not a tool for looking up IP address registration details.

BARINCorrect

ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers) is one of the five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) responsible for managing IP address allocation and registration in North America. Its public databases, such as Whois, allow users to look up an IP address and retrieve detailed information about the associated network range, owning organization, and contact details, which can be used to infer network topology and potentially OS information indirectly.

CDuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo is a privacy-focused search engine, not a registry for IP address information.

DBaidu

Baidu is a Chinese multinational technology company specializing in internet-related services and products, primarily a search engine, not an IP address registration lookup tool.

Concept tested: Footprinting, OSINT, and Regional Internet Registries (RIRs)

Source: https://www.arin.net/

Topics

#footprinting#reconnaissance#WHOIS#ARIN

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