Hack attacks

Roger arelem at bigpond.com
Mon Nov 19 06:14:12 UTC 2012


On 11/19/2012 05:02 PM, Brian West wrote:
> On 11/19/2012 12:28 AM, NOSpaze wrote:
>> On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 10:16 +1100, Roger wrote:
>>> Is there any way to trace ip addresses back past the originating ISP.
>>> I've been using whois but it seems limited.
>> Could mtr be of any help?
>
> ISP and a rough location is all your going to get my friend some of 
> the IP lookup sites like whatismyip.com will give you country state 
> and city info but nothing beyond that. if your under attacjk consider 
> installing a firewall with a brute force ban script.
Thanks
Haven't got to the brute force attack yet. Server is very well 
protected  and Drupal 7, after 5 unsuccessful log in attempts locks out 
the particular address for 4-6 hours, I can increase this as needed.


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