How to locate and contact attacker?

[David Bandel]

On 8/14/06, Chong Yu Meng <chongym at cymulacrum.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This morning, I noticed something very odd in my security logs. There is
> one particular system that is attacking my server every other day (I
> guess it would be attacking me everyday if not for fail2ban--thanks
> David!). Always the same IP address. I tried pinging the IP address from
> my home, and of course it responded. Then I tried to put the IP address
> in my browser, to see if it was running any web services. Strangely, it
> seemed like it was, but the transfer timed out.

dig -x IP_address
whois domain_name.tld

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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