bahuma: the blog

Hello… I am hungover. Went out to a cocktail party last night. Had a really good time. I did drink too much and the consequences are on the front lawn It was good to see the people I made friends with at the last party again.

Well, I have a little over a week left in Flagstaff, AZ. I will have been here 5 months all up this year… wow.

I have made some travel plans as I have some time off between this job and the next

Sunday 5th September – Fly to San Diego.
Monday 6th September – Wednesday 8th September – Hang in San Diego.
Thursday 9th September – Fly from San Diego to New York.
Friday 10th – September – Saturday 11th September – Hang in New York.
Sunday 12th September – Train from NY to Harrisburg, PA

Should be fun!

The project here in Flagstaff is winding down. Some of our gear has already been sent back to Australia. It looks like we will be off site in a little over a week.

From there I have a couple of weeks to fill in here in the US. I will be heading over to the East side to see places such as New York and Washington.

After the few weeks is up, it is on to Pennsylvania and then Utah. Should be some interesting times!

The bahuma.net website has been relaunched. Most things are working. I will be upgrading the SMS services to the new look over the coming weeks (or so)

I hope you like the new website, please leave me feedback via the comments link or the contact form!

I have been spidered a few times lately with spam comments on my blog posts. Please note that if your comment does not show up, it is not lost but it is awaiting moderation. It will be online when I approve it.

Cheers

A few software packages have been updated lately. Here is a heads up

• Winamp 5.05 – www.winamp.com
• Ultraedit 10.2c – www.ultraedit.com
• Filezilla 2.2.8a -www.sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla
• Gallery 1.4.4 pl1- gallery.menalto.com
• Firefox 0.9.3 – www.mozilla.org/products/firefox
• PuTTY – www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
• Windows XP SP2 – www.microsoft.com

Gotta love people who try and attack my machine. Below is part of my log:

Aug 8 04:55:15 server sshd[17476]: Illegal user test from 202.78.172.20
Aug 8 04:55:18 server sshd[17476]: Failed password for illegal user test from 202.78.172.20 port 2708 ssh2
Aug 8 04:55:23 server sshd[17478]: Illegal user guest from 202.78.172.20
Aug 8 04:55:23 server sshd[17478]: Failed password for illegal user guest from 202.78.172.20 port 2860 ssh2
Aug 8 04:55:27 server sshd[17480]: Failed password for admin from 202.78.172.20 port 2938 ssh2
Aug 8 04:55:31 server sshd[17482]: Failed password for admin from 202.78.172.20 port 3016 ssh2
Aug 8 04:55:36 server sshd[17484]: Illegal user user from 202.78.172.20
Aug 8 04:55:36 server sshd[17484]: Failed password for illegal user user from 202.78.172.20 port 3082 ssh2
Aug 8 04:55:40 server sshd[17486]: Failed password for root from 202.78.172.20 port 3137 ssh2
Aug 8 04:55:44 server sshd[17488]: Failed password for root from 202.78.172.20 port 3190 ssh2
Aug 8 04:55:49 server sshd[17490]: Failed password for root from 202.78.172.20 port 3238 ssh2
Aug 8 04:55:53 server sshd[17492]: Illegal user test from 202.78.172.20

Some guy with IP 202.78.172.20 tried to get in.. so I decide to try and find out more. I do a traceroute. Here are the last few steps

21 delhi-203.200.64-82.vsnl.net.in (203.200.64.82) 499.061 ms 500.735 ms 499.540 ms
22 delhi-202.54.192-30.vsnl.net.in (202.54.192.30) 501.272 ms 495.724 ms 499.291 ms
23 202.78.172.20 (202.78.172.20) 501.619 ms 754.401 ms 504.221 ms

OK, so it looks like he is in india. I decide to try and ssh/ftp to his IP. I get a response on both services.

ftp> open 202.78.172.20
Connected to 202.78.172.20.
220 rainbowsms.com FTP server (Version wu-2.6.2-8) ready.
User (202.78.172.20:(none)):

Hmm, look at that, a domain name! I do a whois on that domain.

Admin Name……….. tanuj tanuj
Admin Address…….. rainbow towers 3, amrpali circle vashali circle
Admin Address……..
Admin Address…….. jaipur
Admin Address…….. 302021
Admin Address…….. RA
Admin Address…….. INDIA
Admin Email………. tanujgupta@hellorainbow.com
Admin Phone………. 91-141-5100247
Admin Fax…………

Look at that, a contact number and an email! Dont mess with me

Howdy

Ian and I went on a Jeep tour and a horse ride today in Sedona. It was really cool. Our guides were excellent! Of course I had my camera handy, and as usual the pics can be found on the sedona gallery!