Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 14:16:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham <lplist@q.closedsrc.org> To: Carl Strickler <cstrickl@ifta.net> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Who's knockin' on my firewall [OFF TOPIC] Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007141415300.99598-100000@q.closedsrc.org> In-Reply-To: <01BFED9D.8280F100.cstrickl@ifta.net>
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I think ARIN (spelling?) has a IP -> ISP/Owner converter on their site, but I don't know of any utilities that will do that in the CLI... // Linh Pham // // Proud supporter of FreeBSD and OpenBSD // FreeBSD - http://www.freebsd.org // OpenBSD - http://www.openbsd.org /* "Oregon, n.: Eighty billion gallons of water with no place to go on Saturday night." */ On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Carl Strickler wrote: > This is a bit off topic, but I was hoping someone could at least point me in the right > direction. > > I regularly check my security logs to see who's been trying to get in and I'll do an > nslookup on any IP address that occurs over 3 times. Now once in a while this > will actually be useful and I come up with actual useful information. But most of > the time I end up with what I started with, an IP address. Is there a way to find out > who owns what block of addresses? > > Also is there a way to find out the real IP address if someone is spoofing (quite often > we are probed by someone with a 10.x.x.x address)? > > Finally, is there any kind of SOP when dealing with unauthorized attempts from foreign > countries (we seem to get probed quite a bit from SE Asia)? > > Any information would be helpful. > > > TIA, > Carl > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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