They have a forum at Slicehost, but I'm sorry I can't bring myself to sign up there just for this one instance (and I sincerely hope it will rest an isolated event). Someone using the IP # 174.143.247.50 did the well-known PHP routine today, on my website, for half a minute, from "muieblackcat" to "//phpMyAdmin-2.5.7-pl1/index.php HTTP/1.1". Might have been a script kiddie, might have been an infected machine. Anyhow, this should be looked into.
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WHOIS** - is a query/response protocol that is widely used for querying databases in order to determine the registrant or assignee of Internet resources, such as a domain name, an IP address block, or an autonomous system number. WHOIS lookups were traditionally performed with a command line interface application, and network administrators predominantly still use this method, but many simplified web-based tools exist. WHOIS services are typically communicated using the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). Servers listen to requests on the well-known port number 43.
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