[clug] [OT] IP range of a domain?

Carlo Hamalainen carlo.hamalainen at gmail.com
Wed Jan 20 22:42:00 MST 2010


On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Robert Brockway
<robert at timetraveller.org> wrote:
> If you had some idea of the naming scheme they use you could try to brute
> force it by cycling through what you think is the entire set they use for
> hostnames, but this is a poor method for several reasons.  The accuracy of
> this method is dependent on how well you guess their naming scheme, and in
> any case is very heavy on the network.   I only mention it so as to disuade
> you if you were contemplating using it :)

OK, I suspected that it would be like that.

I want to drop all incoming ssh connections to my server apart from a
few IP addresses plus my current home ADSL. When I had Internode I was
able to allow x.y.*.* and it seemed to work, but iPrimus (not my
choosing) seems completely random.

-- 
Carlo Hamalainen
http://carlo-hamalainen.net


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