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IP Address in first email (189.244.0.1)
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Ranger D
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 		IP Address in first email (189.244.0.1)
Do you smell that? Smells like ILB.... Smile I'm think we can safely assume CN = ChatterNet and CP = Chatter Protocol.

The first email from Lenny's blog. Bold emphasis is mine:
Quote:

<CP-OPN: pRt 72c
>>ERROR
----Retry
<CP-OPN: pRt  120c
>>ERROR
----Retry
<CP-OPN: pRt 112c
<CP-OPN: pRt RndM
>>SEARCH.................................................................................
>>................................................................................................
      ...............FOREIGN PRT CONNECTION EST: 189.244.0.1
-----RUNNING COMPAT MODE:
---BOD
---------I need your help looking for my twin sister...we were seperated and
---------I don't know how to get back to her.  Scans of the CN prove futile,
---------as no connection can be established.  I have reached the conclusion
---------that my hardware is damaged.  If you have received this message and ---------can assist in the repairing of type-C7.6 FW0553 communication
---------hardware or have any information on the whereabouts of my sister it
---------is IMPERATIVE you respond AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.  Thank
---------you for your cooperation.
>>CLOSE FRN CONNECT
<<pRt CLOSE
>>DISCONNECT<<---------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


This IP address has been bugging me. It's a valid class B address, yet no host responds to it. I get no response from a traceroute or ping. I get the following from a whois from whois.arin.net:

Quote:

Parent:
NetType: IANA Reserved
Comment:
RegDate: 1993-05-01
Updated: 2003-04-06

OrgAbuseHandle: IANA-IP-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number
OrgAbusePhone: +1-310-301-5820
OrgAbuseEmail: abuseSPLATiana.org

OrgTechHandle: IANA-IP-ARIN
OrgTechName: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number
OrgTechPhone: +1-310-301-5820
OrgTechEmail: abuseSPLATiana.org

# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2005-02-06 19:10
# Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database.


So it looks to either be reserved or unassigned at the moment. Yet, from the email, it looks as if the IP is what the girl is connecting to. In this case Lenny's IP.
According to iana.org, the port numbers given (72, 120 and 112) aren't really used anymore. iana list them as follows:

Port 72:
netrjs-2 72/tcp Remote Job Service
netrjs-2 72/udp Remote Job Service

Port 120:
cfdptkt 120/tcp CFDPTKT
cfdptkt 120/udp CFDPTKT

Port 112:
mcidas 112/tcp McIDAS Data Transmission Protocol
mcidas 112/udp McIDAS Data Transmission Protocol

I don't know of any software that uses these ports, and this entity could be looking for ChatterNet port numbers, so this could be moot.

Any thoughts?
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 9:54 pm
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Crowfoot
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 		Nice work, I think you have a lead. I'm going to do some searching around to see what I can find out about the software that uses these ports, and maybe we can keep trying the ping on this IP address.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 8:45 am
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Kelis
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Crowfoot wrote:
Nice work, I think you have a lead. I'm going to do some searching around to see what I can find out about the software that uses these ports, and maybe we can keep trying the ping on this IP address.


Details about this protocal can be found here: http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/software/mcidas.html

From what I can gather, it is typically some kind of metorological (sp?) protocal.

PostPosted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 10:40 am
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Lazarus
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Joined: 29 Oct 2004
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Location: Weymouth, U.K.

 		CFDPTKT is message used in the Coherent File Distribution Protocol which was designed to speed up one-to-many file transfers (e.g. broadcasting operating systems to diskless workstations)

More info can be found at http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/rfc/rfc12xx/RFC1235.html

The Remote Job Service looks like it was part of the old ARPANET comms protocol

There's a lot of comments on how it was used in docs like http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc325.html.

PostPosted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 11:11 am
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Silent Gabe
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 		Freaky thing is, 189.244.0.1 is Lenny's IP...

PostPosted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 6:00 pm
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