Logs recovered after a ping flood attack cut off the end of a hostname that the perpetrator may have used in the attack. If anyone knows who uses the following format for their dialup IP hostnames, please contact me privately: 1Cust76.tnt1.sfo2.da. Brandon Ross Network Engineering 404-815-0770 800-719-4664 Director, Network Engineering, MindSpring Ent., Inc. info@mindspring.com ICQ: 2269442 Stop Smurf attacks! Configure your router interfaces to block directed broadcasts. See http://www.quadrunner.com/~chuegen/smurf.cgi for details.
Thanks to all of you who replied to this, I have the information I need now. For the curious, it's uu.net. On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Brandon Ross wrote:
Logs recovered after a ping flood attack cut off the end of a hostname that the perpetrator may have used in the attack. If anyone knows who uses the following format for their dialup IP hostnames, please contact me privately:
1Cust76.tnt1.sfo2.da.
Brandon Ross Network Engineering 404-815-0770 800-719-4664 Director, Network Engineering, MindSpring Ent., Inc. info@mindspring.com ICQ: 2269442
Stop Smurf attacks! Configure your router interfaces to block directed broadcasts. See http://www.quadrunner.com/~chuegen/smurf.cgi for details.
Brandon Ross Network Engineering 404-815-0770 800-719-4664 Director, Network Engineering, MindSpring Ent., Inc. info@mindspring.com ICQ: 2269442 Stop Smurf attacks! Configure your router interfaces to block directed broadcasts. See http://www.quadrunner.com/~chuegen/smurf.cgi for details.
That's UUNet dialup dns.
nslookup 1Cust76.tnt1.sfo2.da.uu.net Server: yarbles.insync.net Address: 209.113.65.3
Non-authoritative answer: Name: 1Cust76.tnt1.sfo2.da.uu.net Address: 208.251.189.76 Regards, Joseph Shaw - jshaw@insync.net NetAdmin/Security - Insync Internet Services Free UNIX advocate - "I hack, therefore I am." On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Brandon Ross wrote:
Logs recovered after a ping flood attack cut off the end of a hostname that the perpetrator may have used in the attack. If anyone knows who uses the following format for their dialup IP hostnames, please contact me privately:
1Cust76.tnt1.sfo2.da.
Brandon Ross Network Engineering 404-815-0770 800-719-4664 Director, Network Engineering, MindSpring Ent., Inc. info@mindspring.com ICQ: 2269442
Stop Smurf attacks! Configure your router interfaces to block directed broadcasts. See http://www.quadrunner.com/~chuegen/smurf.cgi for details.
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