[K12OSN] off topic - firefox history files

[Rob Owens]

Joseph,

You can look in the dhcpd.leases file to find out
which MAC address (and therefore which terminal) had
which IP address.  On my Ubuntu machine, dhcpd.leases
is in /var/lib/dhcp3/

-Rob

--- Huck <dhuckaby at paasda.org> wrote:

> I don't understand "MAC gets which IP"..
> knowing the originating IP of the machine..you can
> track it back to the 
> specific machine and with the time/date stamp you
> can determine who was 
> at that machine during that time on that day. Then
> you can check against 
> 'last' if the log is deep enough to find out who was
> logged in at that 
> machine at that time.
> 
> --Huck
> 
> Joseph Bishay wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > On 10/11/06, Huck <dhuckaby at paasda.org> wrote:
> >> that should tell you the machine's IP address
> attempting to access it
> >> and the time/date stamp..
> > 
> >> From what I understand, unless you specify in the
> lts.conf file which
> > MAC gets which IP, knowing the IP that attempted
> to access the site
> > isn't very useful.  How would you trace it back to
> one person?
> > 
> > Joseph
> > 
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