How to locate and contact attacker?

Tue Aug 15 08:26:13 PDT 2006

On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Chong Yu Meng wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 22:40 -0500, David Bandel wrote:
>
>> dig -x IP_address
>> whois domain_name.tld
>>
> Thanks again ! Seems to be a server in China. I thought China servers
> were isolated from the rest of the Internet by proxies? Maybe Man-Wai
> can clear this up for me...

My understanding is that China's "great firewall" is a transparent proxy, 
so you wouldn't neccesarily see it from the outside (or inside).

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