[KLUG Members] Chasing people down.

[Buist Justin]

If all you have is IP addresses why not do a 'whois' (you can use http://www.arin.net) on the addresses and find out who owns that block?  You don't neccessarily need a domain name to get started tracking down addresses.

Justin


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Bultman [mailto:adamb@glaven.org]
> Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 11:54 AM
> To: members@kalamazoolinux.org
> Subject: Re: [KLUG Members] Chasing people down.
> 
> 
> > Your proxy is available from the Internet?!  If you see log 
> entries traceroute
> > back to the source address,  reverse lookup on the address, 
>  lookup the domain
> > in whois, and contact their administrative contact.
> >
> 
> No- check this out- it's an apache server that the previous 
> admin enabled
> mod_proxy on. So, anyone connecting to it and requesting an 
> offsite page
> got the page through that machine, so it's like an anonymizer.
> 
> 
> 
> > If it is always the same request I doubt it is a human user.
> >
> Well, there's a lot of different pages. However, who on earth 
> would set up
> a robot program to just get banner ads? That's kind of 
> strange.  Unless
> it's just some sort of program to flood my bandwidth.
> 
> 
> >
> > Screw the help desk, whois contains contact info.  If no 
> satisifaction have your
> > lawyer call and mention compenstation for bandwidth consumption.
> >
> I'm having a hard time getting valid hosts. Some places have 
> no info for
> them, others point to companies in other languages. So, I'll 
> try to chase
> down the ones I know, but for the most part, like I said, 
> abuse addresses
> aren't very helpful.
> 
> Oh, well.
> 
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