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kmoorevs wrote: When I enter the IP address into the browser, I get an Ubuntu web server default page.
You realise they probably log connections to them and will add it to their list of sites to attack.
(Similar to the nugget that it's often better not to click unsubscribe to unsolicited email - better to just mark as spam.)
Now they know somebody is home -> and is worried -> hence they might have something to protect.
Signature ready for installation. Please Reboot now.
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Not worried...just annoyed. They've been trying for 3 weeks and haven't succeeded! It looks like I need to setup another honeypot to help them along! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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No PTR records for the IP address?
How about a tracert? That should at least give you a clue as to the ISP they're using.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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 Thanks Richard! tracert did the trick...it appears to originate in Russia.
Alarmingly, further digging revealed that this hacker (at least this particular IP address) had been hitting my server almost daily for over three weeks. One possibly telling detail is that the early attempts were against an email username, the rest were mostly against the domain name.
I've denied access based on that IP address as a short term fix...the server is due for migration to Server 2016 later this month (currently 2008r2) so hopefully will come with better dynamic blocking features. My deny list is rather large as I wrote a script a long time ago to deny the entire country of China!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: deny the entire country of China
I know that feeling - my email still has a rule I set up a decade ago sending anything from the .ru domain direct to the bin!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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An IP address might not be bound to a domain. But you can try a WHOIS query using a web service or the whois command line utility on a Linux system.
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Is stealing someone’s coffee mugging?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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aggressive or not nobody likes a coffee tea leaf
Signature ready for installation. Please Reboot now.
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...and if the mugger trips it's a felony.
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It's only mugging if it's taken by force, otherwise it's decaffeination.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Don't you dare even think of stealing my drink. I strongly vodkate against it!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Let us espresso it as follows: "Obviously we've bean some trouble brewing."
(All thoughts come to a grinding halt).
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Not if he drinks espresso.
(Would that be cupping?)
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Would there be grounds for arrest? And if so would it be a pot bust?
I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended.
I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended.
Freedom doesn't mean the absence of things you don't like.
Dave
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There's never a cup when you need one.
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I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended.
I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended.
Freedom doesn't mean the absence of things you don't like.
Dave
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It's more like resisting a rest.
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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I just found out what you can do with a basket![^]
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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It called 'Radiant AI'...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Stop right there, you criminal scum!
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Guess for whom I saved this basket...
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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So I have a Gingerbread powered phone, that never was updated on the global level only the selected applications, like WhatsApp and Waze and Gmail...
Today WhatsApp stopped to work as my version is too old to talk to the server, so I went to Play and picked the update for WhatsApp... Now Play decided to update itself (it is of course a must have update, so must have that not even my permission required)... Unfortunately that update including the installation of Google Play Services, that breaks Gingerbread ever second...
So I stopped it and removed the new installation/update and went to WhatsApp site to directly download the apk and install it...
WhatsApp - a 3rd party application has no problem to support older Android versions, but the home made Google Play Services not only brakes the phone, but actually installed without any reason whatsoever...
I see a very promising future here...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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You're not suggesting for a moment that OS manufacturers deliberately force users to upgrade their hardware, are you?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Nooo... They wouldn't do such thing... Remember the "Don't be evil" motto...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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But they dropped it, didn't they. At the same time as they formed Alphabet.
Edit
They changed it to: "Do the right thing". Without specifying for whom
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