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Date:      Sat, 5 Jun 2004 15:22:21 +0200
From:      Hasse <hasse@swedehost.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Michal Pasternak <michal@pasternak.w.lub.pl>
Subject:   Re: Sending a message to another computer on the network
Message-ID:  <200406051522.21178.hasse@swedehost.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040605123147.GA94344@pasternak.w.lub.pl>
References:  <200406051425.49401.hasse@swedehost.com> <20040605123147.GA94344@pasternak.w.lub.pl>

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On Saturday 05 June 2004 14.31, Michal Pasternak wrote:
> Hasse [Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 02:25:49PM +0200]:
> > I'm on a FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE machine on 217.209.211.x ,
> > and would like to send a message to Win-box ( on the same network, but
> > not my machine ) that's filling up my  httpd-access.log with junk.
> > The only thing I know is his IP-adress.
>
> What?
>
> Lookup his/hers IP via whoisdb (www.ripe.net) and report abuse to proper
> Internet Service Provider.
>
> > Is this possible ? If it is, how.
>
> smbclient -M
>
> > Or do I have to block his IP ?
>
> That's also an option.
> _______________________________________________
Thx for your replay.
Well, I've allready tried whois, host -a, dig, and so on, but it's not giving 
me any more then telling me who's the ISP, and I allready know that.
Same as mine :-)  
The problem with blocing his is IP is that it's dynamic, next time he reboot, 
he'll be back with another one. So then I have to block the hole range, and 
that's rather drastic.

What I was looking for, was a way to notify the poor guy so he could take some 
proper action to clean his machine. He is probably not aware of the problem.

I'll have a look at smbclient

/ Hasse



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