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    Finding who is behind the IP

    I would like to know how I can track who has been trying to get into my computer through backdoors. I have had my firewall give me a message that say IP 66.45.643.12 has been trying to access your computer. I would like to know what I can do, where I can go to find out more about who is behind this IP, if I can get email addresses, names, etc. That would be great.

    All ideas are greatly appreciated!!!

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    Well, the first thing to do would be to DNS it, then WHOIS it.

    Unable to resolve 66.45.643.12.

    Sorry, can't WHOIS without DNS.

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    Hold up there cowboy....Check with your firewall logs to see what EXACTLY this IP address is trying to access. could be just a sweep.

    You may also want to confirm the IP address you put up " 66.45.643.12 " the 3rd octet says .643 thats wrong.

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    Originally posted by papacorn
    Hold up there cowboy....Check with your firewall logs to see what EXACTLY this IP address is trying to access. could be just a sweep.

    You may also want to confirm the IP address you put up " 66.45.643.12 " the 3rd octet says .643 thats wrong.
    Haha, I didn't even notice the c subnet was over 255.

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    Depending on how far you wanna go, the first two parts to an IP are reserved for a certain ISP. They would log who gets what but that's overkill i'd imagine for what you want.
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    RIPE WhoIs will give you information about the IP address. It won't that one though - becuase its invalid.

    http://www.ripe.net/db/whois/whois.html
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