Re: Need to find Intuder Machine

From: Chuck Conlow (cconlow@earthlink.net)
Date: 11/15/02


From: "Chuck Conlow" <cconlow@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:51:02 GMT


"De` Baorsch" <spam.org@spam.net@spam.com> wrote in message
news:ut6tkaol7dk317@corp.supernews.com...
> On one of sites I support I suspect someone is bringing in a laptop from
> home some times to access the net for an hour or two by plugging a patch
> cord in a live drop. The place is 24x7 and physically large with many
> buildings and drops. The machine tried to unsuccesfully join my domain
> giving the name of one of our exchange servers as name of the domain. (I
> have no roming profiles, so the exchange server name is commonly know
among
> staff) When it couldn't join it created a workgroup with the name of the
> exchange server on the laptop, got an IP from DHCP and registered in the
> WINS server. As a result email is getting pointed to the wrong Exchange
> Server (the intruder laptop) and crashes.I was able to get the MAC of the
> machine and the machine name.
> Any ideas to find the drop the person is using when they do it, or to
block
> access to that machine from NT 4.0?
>

Which drop? Mebbe... what kinda monitoring tools do you have for the
router(s)?

But - here'a a real nice one... Noted that you know the MAC, have the DHCP
server assign a specific IP of a host/subnet that has NO ACCESS TO ANYTHING,
ANYWHERE. That'll stop him for a while, but re: monitor tools for your
router(s).

Chuck



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