SCOUG-HELP Mailing List Archives

<< Previous Message << >> Next Message >>

Date:	Thu, 11 Sep 2003 22:10:17 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: HOST command ?

=====================================================
If you are responding to someone asking for help who
may not be a member of this list, be sure to use the
REPLY TO ALL feature of your email program.
=====================================================

In <3F610E8F.3E43@peterskye.com>, on 09/11/03
at 05:07 PM, Peter Skye said:

> [G:\]host 66.220.17.151
> 66.220.17.151 = 151.17.220.66.in-addr.arpa

>My firewall shows unusually heavy activity from 66.220.17.151 trying to
>break into my machine. I've never used HOST before and don't understand
>the response. HOST.EXE has no online help and the Warp TCP/IP help file
>isn't clear on what the response means.

What sort of packets are you being hit with? There's a lot of port 1900
stuff floating around along with all the usual IRC trojan.

host is basically a simple nslookup. The response that the DNS knows how
to reach the host, but there's no domain name info avialable. The manual
is pretty clear on what host does. If you are interested the the gory
details, there's always iptrace.

Steven

--
----------------------------------------------------------------------
"Steven Levine" MR2/ICE 2.37 #10183 Warp4/FP15/14.093c_W4
www.scoug.com irc.webbnet.info irc.fyrelizard.org #scoug (Wed 7pm PST)
----------------------------------------------------------------------

=====================================================

To unsubscribe from this list, send an email message
to "steward@scoug.com". In the body of the message,
put the command "unsubscribe scoug-help".

For problems, contact the list owner at
"rollin@scoug.com".

=====================================================

Return to [ 11 | September | 2003 ]

SCOUG, Warp Expo West, and Warpfest are trademarks of the Southern California OS/2 User Group. OS/2, Workplace Shell, and IBM are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. All other trademarks remain the property of their respective owners.