Pings

[Fish]

I have this guy,I won't say his name or phone # yet that has pinged me 4 times in the last couple days. My question is, I have ADSL which isn't a static ip, how do I know if I'm targeted or random? I'm thinking someone else from Napster or something had this IP address before. As I haven't shut off my PC in a couple days, I still have the same IP. I know the obvious answer is to release my IP address, but was wondering for future reference I guess. Is there a way to tell if it's random or not? And should I call his ISP and give his name address and phone #?

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If you ever get to thinkin' you're a person of influence,
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[Hardtek1976]

Hello,

First of all I think you have answered the question yourself, someone else may have been using Napster and that is why you are being pinged. The best thing to do is keep a record of the pings. If you are using Zone Alarm a neat utility to use is ZoneLog which can be d/l at http://www.zonelog.co.uk The best option is to then release and then renew you IP address and watch out for his IP address and then take appropriate action as neccessary.

Ron

[Fish]

Thanks for the quick reply! I do have ZA and I have another utility that traces the peoples names, addresses phone #'s on most pings. It's called Neotrace. I got it at http://www.neoworx.com It's just the free express one, but it seems to work ok. I'll just keep a logbook and see what happens after I release my IP. Thanks for the link!

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If you ever get to thinkin' you're a person of influence,
try orderin' somebody elses dog around.

[This message has been edited by Fish (edited 03-22-2001).]

[Ghost_Hacker]

If your worried that your being scanned. You could download a program called tcpdump (windump(?) is the windows version,tcpdump is for unix flavors)This program will capture the IP traffic to your workstation to a file. Which you can then look at to see if your ports are being scanned for running services. ( a little knowledge of TCP/IP will be needed to read the file. If you don't know how to read it then just copy down about 5 lines from the IP address of the offender and I'll "decode" it for you) But if your only getting pings every once in a while then this person/computer is just checking to see if a computer with your IP address is up and running. Nothing to worry about since your IP address isn't a static one.

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[This message has been edited by Ghost_Hacker (edited 03-23-2001).]

[Fish]

Ok Thanks Ghost_Hacker! If I think I have a problem I will come to you. I wasn't really worried so much about this one,but,it made me think of the question "How would I know in the future?" I appreciate your help. I think from now on I'll just release my IP every night and that will fix it.

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