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Re: [cobalt-users] Attacking from an IP Range



On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Ian C. Walmsley wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Portsentry is currently reporting repeated attacks from IP's in the range
> 192.168.20.0 to 192.168.20.255 - I am sure that this is not a usual IP
> address range.

It's in the reserved range for local use...

> 
> Any idea how I can track this IP down, and is it possible to block an entire
> range with an '*'- or is it even wise to do that?

packet sniffer ;)

If you want to just blackhole it

route add -net 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 reject

(Make sure you aren't uing it yurself somewhere ;)

gsh