Re: Odd identd behavior

Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.incidents
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2005-11-14 [email protected] wrote:
> Just to reiterate, I'd simply dig or nslookup the ip addresses (or use
> one of the many nslookup webpages) and see if they have some contact
> info.

I'd suggest to use whois instead.

> Really all you care about at this point is passing off some
> information to the admin that it looks like he has some nefarious
> activity on his network. You might also want to give him your ip
> address (and maybe mac) so he can sift your info out of any forensics
> he may do.

MAC address is irrelevant here, since it's only used on the ethernet
segment your box is connected to.

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
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