Re: Tracking down IP's

[Pollywog <croak@shadypond.com>]

On Sun, 31 Dec 2000 13:55:26 -0600 (CST), Richard Cobbe said:

>
>  Did you change your IP address in the above report?  IIRC, 172.16.*.* is
>  a block of private addresses.  Packets to this address should be dropped
>  automatically by an upstream router.  My guess, therefore, is that these
>  transmissions are coming from somewhere else in your network---probably a
>  misconfigured SNMP manager who thinks you're an agent.

I would ask my ISP if it was coming from them or from their upstream
provider.
I had some odd stuff appearing in my logs once, coming from the same
IP address, and it was in fact coming from my ISP's upstream
provider.

--
Andrew