Re: Find out host of IP

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 06/10/07 11:26, David Baron wrote:
> Someone is trying to ssh on to my system. Trying on several ports. Not the 
> first time, either. Thankfully, he does not have a password. Besides a bunch 
> of Deprecated option ReverseMappingCheck, so far no harm done.
>
> Since my logs have this IP number, how do I find out who it is?

dig

To look at, for example, 68.99.123.13 do this:
  $ dig 13.123.99.68.in-addr.arpa

Note how I reversed the numbers and appended ".in-addr.arpa".

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

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