Hi
I've just had a problem with someone leeching files from one of my
websites.
I know the dedicated IP address of the culprit and I know who their
hosting company is but I'm trying to find out what their website address
is.
Does anyone know of any way to find out what websites are hosted at a
specific IP address.
This may help the client work out if somebody has stolen their data to
reuse it.
Cheers
Graham
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Author: Dave Crozier
Posted: 2011-04-15 11:21:03 Link
Graham,
Doesn't command line tracert (Traceroute) help to narrow it down?
Dave C
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Hi
I've just had a problem with someone leeching files from one of my
websites.
I know the dedicated IP address of the culprit and I know who their
hosting company is but I'm trying to find out what their website address
is.
Does anyone know of any way to find out what websites are hosted at a
specific IP address.
This may help the client work out if somebody has stolen their data to
reuse it.
Cheers
Graham
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Author: Dave Crozier
Posted: 2011-04-15 11:27:51 Link
Or:
http://phpweby.com/services/iplocation
Which gives more specific info.
Dave C
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Hi
I've just had a problem with someone leeching files from one of my
websites.
I know the dedicated IP address of the culprit and I know who their
hosting company is but I'm trying to find out what their website address
is.
Does anyone know of any way to find out what websites are hosted at a
specific IP address.
This may help the client work out if somebody has stolen their data to
reuse it.
Cheers
Graham
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Not sure how useful that may be for a physical location. I'm in Arizona and
it shows my IP address as being in New York.
Fred
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Dave Crozier <DCrozier@flexipol.co.uk>wrote:
> Or:
> http://phpweby.com/services/iplocation
>
> Which gives more specific info.
>
> Dave C
>
>
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> Of Graham Brown
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>
> Hi
>
> I've just had a problem with someone leeching files from one of my
> websites.
> I know the dedicated IP address of the culprit and I know who their
> hosting company is but I'm trying to find out what their website address
> is.
>
> Does anyone know of any way to find out what websites are hosted at a
> specific IP address.
> This may help the client work out if somebody has stolen their data to
> reuse it.
>
> Cheers
> Graham
>
>
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Author: Graham Brown
Posted: 2011-04-15 12:01:27 Link
Hi chaps
Thanks for the replies
I know where it thinks the IP address is and have spoken to the hosting
company.
However somebody has helped themselves to the client's product
catalogue, images etc etc.
The hosting company will not tell the client who the thief is.
I've been tasked to find out where this information is being used.
Don't you just love it..!
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Not sure how useful that may be for a physical location. I'm in Arizona
and
it shows my IP address as being in New York.
Fred
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Dave Crozier
<DCrozier@flexipol.co.uk>wrote:
> Or:
> http://phpweby.com/services/iplocation
>
> Which gives more specific info.
>
> Dave C
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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Behalf
> Of Graham Brown
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> Subject: [NF] Convert IP address to website address
>
> Hi
>
> I've just had a problem with someone leeching files from one of my
> websites.
> I know the dedicated IP address of the culprit and I know who their
> hosting company is but I'm trying to find out what their website
address
> is.
>
> Does anyone know of any way to find out what websites are hosted at a
> specific IP address.
> This may help the client work out if somebody has stolen their data to
> reuse it.
>
> Cheers
> Graham
>
>
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On 4/15/11 9:01 AM, Graham Brown wrote:
>> I've just had a problem with someone leeching files from one of my
>> websites.
>> I know the dedicated IP address of the culprit and I know who their
>> hosting company is but I'm trying to find out what their website
> address
>> is.
How is it that they are a thief, if they grabbed publicly-available documents off
your client's website?
How do you know they plan nefarious things with the data they "stole"?
Paul
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On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Graham Brown <info@compsys.co.uk> wrote:
> I know where it thinks the IP address is and have spoken to the hosting
> company.
> However somebody has helped themselves to the client's product
> catalogue, images etc etc.
> The hosting company will not tell the client who the thief is.
>
> I've been tasked to find out where this information is being used.
Have you tried opening a browser and typing in the IP address directly?
You can use a "whois" command in Linux/Unix/OSX to determine what host
is associated with the IP address, but that may be the parent ISP or
the host of a shared service. Search for 'whois' on the web to find
web-based services.
Bear in mind that the two addresses (leecher and host) don't
necessarily have to be related. For example, our office is on a TDS
DSL you can trace to the local central office in New Hampshire, but
our web site is in a data center in New Jersey. So, the client
"leeching" your information and the place where they host it may have
little in common.
The tactic I'd suggest would be to search for uniquely named files,
i.e., "bluewidgetwithgreenfringe20cmX11cm.png" in the major search
engines and see if they have found it. There's a good chance if it is
out there on the web, the search engines find it. Otherwise, how would
potential customers?
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Author: Malcolm Greene
Posted: 2011-04-15 12:38:22 Link
Graham,
Does this article give you some ideas?
http://www.davidairey.com/stop-image-theft-hotlinking-htaccess/
Also: Could the culprit be a search engine spider? If you don't want
(polite) search engines to spider your site, you can create a robots.txt
file at the root of your site to limit this type of access.
Malcolm
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Author: <kamcginnis@gmail.com>
Posted: 2011-04-15 13:01:00 Link
It placed my position within 1 mile.
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Not sure how useful that may be for a physical location. I'm in Arizona and
it shows my IP address as being in New York.
Fred
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Dave Crozier <DCrozier@flexipol.co.uk>wrote:
> Or:
> http://phpweby.com/services/iplocation
>
> Which gives more specific info.
>
> Dave C
>
>
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> Of Graham Brown
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>
> Hi
>
> I've just had a problem with someone leeching files from one of my
> websites.
> I know the dedicated IP address of the culprit and I know who their
> hosting company is but I'm trying to find out what their website address
> is.
>
> Does anyone know of any way to find out what websites are hosted at a
> specific IP address.
> This may help the client work out if somebody has stolen their data to
> reuse it.
>
> Cheers
> Graham
>
>
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Author: Graham Brown
Posted: 2011-04-17 13:42:51 Link
Hi Paul
Interesting point
I guess why would someone run a leeching program which made 366,000 calls to the website and downloaded 28gb of information.
They also downloaded product images and schematics.
The most logical answer is to use the information elsewhere.
I've blocked the leech IPs, watermarked all images and hidden some bad data in the files. At least if the leeching starts again it may be possible to find the site.
Regards
Graham
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On 4/15/11 9:01 AM, Graham Brown wrote:
>> I've just had a problem with someone leeching files from one of my
>> websites.
>> I know the dedicated IP address of the culprit and I know who their
>> hosting company is but I'm trying to find out what their website
> address
>> is.
How is it that they are a thief, if they grabbed publicly-available documents off
your client's website?
How do you know they plan nefarious things with the data they "stole"?
Paul
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