Banned IP's question

I'm getting junk messages from an ip-less joker. They are logged like this:

18.west-valley-02rh15rt.ut.dial-access.att.net
or
cache-dtc-ac17.proxy.aol.com

oops...

How can I ban an address without an ip number? or how can I find the number from such an address....

Thanks

Rich

Hi Rich,

here is your answer:
12.72.169.18 PTR record: 18.west-valley-02rh15rt.ut.dial-access.att.net. [TTL 172800s] [A=12.72.169.18]

205.188.116.146 PTR record: cache-dtc-ac17.proxy.aol.com. [TTL 3600s] [A=205.188.116.146]

Thanks Jam'n...... but how do you figure that out??? What do you have to do to find the numbers.... for the future...

Thanks!

Rich

Hopefully someone can help me with this...

I've been fixing some hacked guestbooks and want to track down the IP addresses of the hackers.

I can get the same sort of info as...

18.west-valley-02rh15rt.ut.dial-access.att.net
or
cache-dtc-ac17.proxy.aol.com

But how do you turn that into an IP address?

Any help would be much appreciated.

You can mail me if you want guestbook at kahlil dot org.

Thanks

Hi Trevor,

Take a look here

Thanks Jam'n - that site's a handy resource

Just remember that the "hackers" just log in and edit an existing post so the IP you see is actually the original poster and not the "hacker". I use the term hacker loosely as these are not hackers but script kiddies. Hell even thats paying them a compliment.