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Logs recovered after a ping flood attack cut off the end of a hostname
that the perpetrator may have used in the attack. If anyone knows who
uses the following format for their dialup IP hostnames, please contact me
privately:

1Cust76.tnt1.sfo2.da.

Brandon Ross Network Engineering 404-815-0770 800-719-4664
Director, Network Engineering, MindSpring Ent., Inc. info@mindspring.com
                                                            ICQ: 2269442

Stop Smurf attacks! Configure your router interfaces to block directed
broadcasts. See http://www.quadrunner.com/~chuegen/smurf.cgi for details.

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Thanks to all of you who replied to this, I have the information I need
now.

For the curious, it's uu.net.

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That's UUNet dialup dns.

nslookup 1Cust76.tnt1.sfo2.da.uu.net

Server: yarbles.insync.net
Address: 209.113.65.3

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: 1Cust76.tnt1.sfo2.da.uu.net
Address: 208.251.189.76

Regards,
Joseph Shaw - jshaw@insync.net
NetAdmin/Security - Insync Internet Services
Free UNIX advocate - "I hack, therefore I am."