Try:
$ whois
217.70.107.151@whois.ripe.net
There's not much you can do. In my experience, the poorer the country,
the less they care about anything you have to say. If you offer them
some good ol' US greenbacks, they might change their tune. Why do you
think the bulk of the spam comes from China and Taiwan? Because they
don't care about netiquet - they want the cash.
George
User wrote:
>
> Lately we have noticed that our friendly firewall is taking hits from
> what seems to be Russia. At least today it seems to be Russia.
> Novoisvirsk, it seems like, according to traceroute.
> I don't know a whole lot about probes like this but am thankful to you
> folks for your guidance with regard to firewalls.
>
> Is there something that we can do with regard to this type of thing?
> Maybe, just track them down for fun. Where would be a good place to
> start reading about this sort of thing.
>
> We trace routed them throught 25 hops to 217.70.107.151
>
> p151.rnttu.sinor.ru was the last hop on the list.
>
> Thank you
> Roger
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