ABUSEEMAIL
Section: User Contributed Perl Documentation (1)
Updated: perl 5.005, patch 03
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NAME
abuseEmail - Finds out abuse email addresses for a specified IP address
SYNOPSIS
abuseEmail [-v] ip-address
DESCRIPTION
abuseEmail receives an IP address and tries to find out, using its
internal whois and DNS clients, what is the responsible party's email
address.
OPTIONS
- -v
-
Set verbosity level to 5. The script will explain every action it makes; it will
also display a confidence level for the email addresses found.
DIAGNOSTICS
- Error: Please specify a host IP address.
-
(F) You did not specified an IP address to lookup.
- Error: This doesn't looks like a numeric IP address.
-
(F) Specifing an hostname will not work, a numeric IP address is required.
- Error: %s is a private IP address (RFC1918). It's a local machine or a spoofed ip, either way, I can't give you any infos on this.
-
(F) Because of an IP address shortage, the IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority),
decided to specify addresses that could only be used in private networks, not on the
public Internet. You asked this program to lookup this kind of address, as it is a private
address, it is not listed in any directory. You may want to ping this address to
see if this come from a computer using a private address on your local network. It is
also possible that the person who tried to connect to your computer sent a spoofed ip
packet, that is, sending an ip packet with an incorrect ``from:'' tag. There is not much
that you can do about this. Sorry.
- Error: %s is a reserved IP address. It's very likely to be a spoofed ip, or your network admin/BOFH is on crack, either way, I can't give you any infos on this.
-
(F) The IP address you specified is a reserved address for experimental purposes; it is
almost impossible that such an IP address is used on the Net. What is very likely is that
the person who tried to connect to your computer sent a spoofed ip packet, that is,
sending an ip packet with an incorrect ``from:'' tag. There is not much that you can do about
this. Sorry.
REQUIRES
Perl 5.004, IO::Socket, Net::DNS::Resolver
SEE ALSO
dig(1), whois(1), perl(1)
BUGS
Yes, there might be some. Please report any one you find to gfk@logidac.com
TODO
- Make ARIN whois lookup catch email addresses.
-
- Better handling of the email addresses, and find out which one are best.
-
WEBSITE
Visit http://logidac.com/abuseEmail for more infos and the lastest version.
AUTHOR
Guillaume Filion <gfk@logidac.com>
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- OPTIONS
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- DIAGNOSTICS
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- REQUIRES
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- SEE ALSO
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- BUGS
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- TODO
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- WEBSITE
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- AUTHOR
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