mailbombed from very closeto home IP

oooops! :)

yeah, that happens....


On Sun, 15 April 2001, "Brian Cluff" wrote:

>
> Oh wait.... I just noticed that your IP has a 10 in it and not a 56. Thats
> definatly nothing to do with me then. The only address I have are in
> 24.221.56.x range.
>
> Thats makes it a whole lot less confusing as to why you are getting a ping
> and traceroute from that addess and I'm not. :)
>
> Brian
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> > well,
> > thats more or less what I thought.
> > However, I was able to ping that address and traceroute it back
> > at the time I sent the e-mail. so it was active, if only for a few hours.
> >
> > in fact, as I type this, I am able to pingthat address...
> >
> > I know most of the tricks for spoofing headers, but spoofing a path on the
> e-mail
> > is a whole different critter. I did send a query to sprintbbd about it.
> won't know until
> > tomorrow (monday) what the results are.
> >
> > Hawke
> >
> > On Sat, 14 April 2001, "Brian Cluff" wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > More than likely, it's a spoofed address. That address is indeed
> assigned
> > > in the same chunk of IP's, but there is currently no machine on that IP
> at
> > > all, and never has been. There are only 2 machines on that chunk of
> > > bandwidth and both of them are completely intact and running smooth as
> ever.
> > >
> > > Whatever it was that you got, it didn't actually come from us.
> > >
> > > Brian
> > >
> >
> >
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