Comments on: Brute-force attacks from Nokia http://dan.cx/blog/2007/05/brute-force-attacks-from-nokia/ Blog of Daniel, a slightly awesome 19-year-old web developer from Melbourne, Australia Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:14:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Daniel15 http://dan.cx/blog/2007/05/brute-force-attacks-from-nokia/comment-page-1/#comment-6455 Daniel15 Thu, 05 Jul 2007 14:50:58 +0000 http://www.daniel15.com/blog/2007/05/02/brute-force-attacks-from-nokia/#comment-6455 It's not a referer, it's the reverse DNS entry (changing an IP address back to a hostname). Unless Nokia's ISP screwed up the reverse DNS, it's definitely them: <pre> daniel@daniel-laptop:~$ host 63.97.248.34 34.248.97.63.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer machine34.nokia.com. </pre> I'm guessing it's a zombie Windows PC with viruses and stuff on it :P "Oh and apologies for posting on such an old blog item" No problem... I like people commenting on my blog, no matter how old the blog item is :) It’s not a referer, it’s the reverse DNS entry (changing an IP address back to a hostname). Unless Nokia’s ISP screwed up the reverse DNS, it’s definitely them:
daniel@daniel-laptop:~$ host  63.97.248.34
34.248.97.63.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer machine34.nokia.com.

I’m guessing it’s a zombie Windows PC with viruses and stuff on it :P

“Oh and apologies for posting on such an old blog item”
No problem… I like people commenting on my blog, no matter how old the blog item is :)

]]> By: MikeSel^ http://dan.cx/blog/2007/05/brute-force-attacks-from-nokia/comment-page-1/#comment-6321 MikeSel^ Sun, 01 Jul 2007 11:25:56 +0000 http://www.daniel15.com/blog/2007/05/02/brute-force-attacks-from-nokia/#comment-6321 I recently suffered something similar, but mine was from Microsoft servers.. (tide526.microsoft.com) i have since discovered this was a spoofed referrer. So all may not be what it seems! Oh and apologies for posting on such an old blog item :$ I recently suffered something similar, but mine was from Microsoft servers.. (tide526.microsoft.com) i have since discovered this was a spoofed referrer. So all may not be what it seems!

Oh and apologies for posting on such an old blog item :$

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