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Thread ID: 52306 2004-12-16 07:17:00 POTUS Biggles (121) PC World Chat
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303869 2004-12-16 07:17:00 Just so you all know the child known as POTUS has been busy hijacking ids all day . This has resulted in lots of work for myself, the other mods and the online team of Jim and Mary - people who have been working hard to bring you the new forum .

He has hijacked the ids of several well-respected members, and either posed as them and made abusiive/stupid comments, or simply prevented them from registering their id .

This is abuse, plain and simple . Any of you who have any simpathy for this . . . thing . . . . are very misguided .

Anyone who has info on who POTUS is, please feel free to do us and all PressF1 users a favour and let me know . I will pursue it to the point of contacting his ISP and attempting to get his account closed . And no, trace route on his IP is so far a dead end .
Biggles (121)
303870 2004-12-16 07:25:00 just being a nitpicker, but isn't potus a she?

BTW if the user Megaman is regstered, can you jst delete it? I've registered as this :)
Edward (31)
303871 2004-12-16 07:25:00 *ahem*

I do this for a living, so if you have the IP address there are much better ways than tracing.

Get the reverse DNS by doing - this is the easiest:

*nix

dig -x xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Windows

nslookup -q=ptr xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

The reverse DNS should give away the ISP of origin.

*nix

whois xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Windows

Find a web-based whois server or ask a *nix user to do it for you.

That should give you a vague indication as to who owns it, though some ISP's use ranges borrowed from or sold wholesale to larger organisations.
ninja (1671)
303872 2004-12-16 07:29:00 dosen't vBulletin have an IP lookup feature that shows a users ISP? in my informal testing, it did... Edward (31)
303873 2004-12-16 07:29:00 You see, I knew I needed input from soime geeks. Biggles (121)
303874 2004-12-16 07:33:00 You see, I knew I needed input from soime geeks.
If I get the first three octets (i.e: 192.168.1.x) I can tell ya where it came from piece of cake.

Don't need the last octet, and that would preserve any privacy required.
ninja (1671)
303875 2004-12-16 07:37:00 I think he's still here. I'm sure vBulletin has an IP lookup doesnt it? ~sy~ (95)
303876 2004-12-16 07:42:00 I think he's still here. I'm sure vBulletin has an IP lookup doesnt it?

What say he is on dial-up and his IP has changed? :(
eat soap (124)
303877 2004-12-16 07:44:00 His ISP will know exactly whom was using that ip at the time. Metla (12)
303878 2004-12-16 07:45:00 Oh, and FYI - a lot of ISP's block the packets used for a traceroute. You need to use a tool like mtr for linux, or WinMTR for windows to get around this.

http://winmtr.sourceforge.net
ninja (1671)
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