City: unknown
Region: unknown
Country: Australia
Internet Service Provider: unknown
Hostname: unknown
Organization: unknown
Usage Type: unknown
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NetRange: 164.97.0.0 - 164.97.255.255
CIDR: 164.97.0.0/16
NetName: APNIC-ERX-164-97-0-0
NetHandle: NET-164-97-0-0-1
Parent: NET164 (NET-164-0-0-0-0)
NetType: Early Registrations, Transferred to APNIC
OriginAS:
Organization: Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC)
RegDate: 2003-07-23
Updated: 2009-10-08
Comment: This IP address range is not registered in the ARIN database.
Comment: This range was transferred to the APNIC Whois Database as
Comment: part of the ERX (Early Registration Transfer) project.
Comment: For details, refer to the APNIC Whois Database via
Comment: WHOIS.APNIC.NET or http://wq.apnic.net/apnic-bin/whois.pl
Comment:
Comment: ** IMPORTANT NOTE: APNIC is the Regional Internet Registry
Comment: for the Asia Pacific region. APNIC does not operate networks
Comment: using this IP address range and is not able to investigate
Comment: spam or abuse reports relating to these addresses. For more
Comment: help, refer to http://www.apnic.net/apnic-info/whois_search2/abuse-and-spamming
Ref: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/ip/164.97.0.0
ResourceLink: https://apps.db.ripe.net/db-web-ui/query
ResourceLink: whois.apnic.net
OrgName: Asia Pacific Network Information Centre
OrgId: APNIC
Address: PO Box 3646
City: South Brisbane
StateProv: QLD
PostalCode: 4101
Country: AU
RegDate:
Updated: 2012-01-24
Ref: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/APNIC
ReferralServer: whois://whois.apnic.net
ResourceLink: http://wq.apnic.net/whois-search/static/search.html
OrgAbuseHandle: AWC12-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: APNIC Whois Contact
OrgAbusePhone: +61 7 3858 3188
OrgAbuseEmail: search-apnic-not-arin@apnic.net
OrgAbuseRef: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/AWC12-ARIN
OrgTechHandle: AWC12-ARIN
OrgTechName: APNIC Whois Contact
OrgTechPhone: +61 7 3858 3188
OrgTechEmail: search-apnic-not-arin@apnic.net
OrgTechRef: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/AWC12-ARIN
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Found a referral to whois.apnic.net.
% [whois.apnic.net]
% Whois data copyright terms http://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html
% Information related to '164.97.0.0 - 164.97.255.255'
% Abuse contact for '164.97.0.0 - 164.97.255.255' is 'sgs@homeaffairs.gov.au'
inetnum: 164.97.0.0 - 164.97.255.255
netname: DEPTHOMEAFFAIRS-AU
descr: Department of Home Affairs
country: AU
org: ORG-DOIA2-AP
admin-c: DOHA4-AP
tech-c: DOHA4-AP
abuse-c: AA2736-AP
status: ALLOCATED PORTABLE
remarks: --------------------------------------------------------
remarks: To report network abuse, please contact mnt-irt
remarks: For troubleshooting, please contact tech-c and admin-c
remarks: Report invalid contact via www.apnic.net/invalidcontact
remarks: --------------------------------------------------------
mnt-by: APNIC-HM
mnt-lower: MAINT-AU-DEPTHOMEAFFAIRS
mnt-routes: MAINT-AU-DEPTHOMEAFFAIRS
mnt-irt: IRT-AU-DEPTHOMEAFFAIRS
last-modified: 2024-05-06T06:49:13Z
source: APNIC
irt: IRT-AU-DEPTHOMEAFFAIRS
address: 6 Chan Street
address: Belconnen, ACT 2617
phone: +61 2 6264 1111
fax-no: +61 2 6225 6970
e-mail: sgs@homeaffairs.gov.au
abuse-mailbox: sgs@homeaffairs.gov.au
admin-c: DOHA4-AP
tech-c: DOHA4-AP
auth: # Filtered
remarks: sgs@homeaffairs.gov.au was validated on 2025-11-26
mnt-by: MAINT-AU-DEPTHOMEAFFAIRS
last-modified: 2025-11-26T02:26:05Z
source: APNIC
organisation: ORG-DOIA2-AP
org-name: Department of Home Affairs
org-type: LIR
country: AU
address: 6 Chan St
phone: +61-2-6264-1111
e-mail: internet.services.support@homeaffairs.gov.au
mnt-ref: APNIC-HM
mnt-by: APNIC-HM
last-modified: 2023-09-19T12:56:42Z
source: APNIC
role: ABUSE AUDEPTHOMEAFFAIRS
country: ZZ
address: 6 Chan Street
address: Belconnen, ACT 2617
phone: +61 2 6264 1111
e-mail: sgs@homeaffairs.gov.au
admin-c: DOHA4-AP
tech-c: DOHA4-AP
nic-hdl: AA2736-AP
remarks: Generated from irt object IRT-AU-DEPTHOMEAFFAIRS
remarks: sgs@homeaffairs.gov.au was validated on 2025-11-26
abuse-mailbox: sgs@homeaffairs.gov.au
mnt-by: APNIC-ABUSE
last-modified: 2025-11-26T02:26:20Z
source: APNIC
role: Department of Home Affairs administrator
address: 6 Chan Street
address: Belconnen, ACT 2617
country: AU
phone: +61 2 6264 1111
fax-no: +61 2 6225 6970
e-mail: sgs@homeaffairs.gov.au
admin-c: DOHA4-AP
tech-c: DOHA4-AP
nic-hdl: DOHA4-AP
mnt-by: MAINT-AU-DEPTHOMEAFFAIRS
last-modified: 2023-09-19T00:41:08Z
source: APNIC
% This query was served by the APNIC Whois Service version 1.88.36-SNAPSHOT (WHOIS-AU5); <<>> DiG 9.10.3-P4-Ubuntu <<>> 164.97.34.215
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 48964
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;164.97.34.215. IN A
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
. 30 IN SOA a.root-servers.net. nstld.verisign-grs.com. 2026032300 1800 900 604800 86400
;; Query time: 7 msec
;; SERVER: 183.60.83.19#53(183.60.83.19)
;; WHEN: Mon Mar 23 20:05:26 CST 2026
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 106Host 215.34.97.164.in-addr.arpa. not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)Server: 183.60.83.19
Address: 183.60.83.19#53
** server can't find 215.34.97.164.in-addr.arpa: NXDOMAIN| IP | Type | Details | Datetime |
|---|---|---|---|
| 49.88.112.90 | attack | $f2bV_matches |
2019-08-27 05:29:38 |
| 77.123.154.234 | attackspambots | SSH Brute Force, server-1 sshd[7279]: Failed password for invalid user vnc from 77.123.154.234 port 52681 ssh2 |
2019-08-27 06:12:05 |
| 162.247.74.201 | attack | Aug 26 23:37:18 srv206 sshd[26947]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=kunstler.tor-exit.calyxinstitute.org user=sshd Aug 26 23:37:20 srv206 sshd[26947]: Failed password for sshd from 162.247.74.201 port 42846 ssh2 ... |
2019-08-27 05:37:31 |
| 27.122.59.86 | attackspambots | Aug 26 18:35:14 raspberrypi sshd\[8874\]: Failed password for sshd from 27.122.59.86 port 38404 ssh2Aug 26 18:35:17 raspberrypi sshd\[8874\]: Failed password for sshd from 27.122.59.86 port 38404 ssh2Aug 26 18:35:20 raspberrypi sshd\[8874\]: Failed password for sshd from 27.122.59.86 port 38404 ssh2 ... |
2019-08-27 06:01:43 |
| 196.1.99.12 | attackspam | Invalid user sybase from 196.1.99.12 port 41166 |
2019-08-27 06:03:07 |
| 84.54.58.194 | attack | B: Magento admin pass test (wrong country) |
2019-08-27 05:38:40 |
| 91.92.109.43 | attackspam | Aug 27 00:09:26 MK-Soft-Root1 sshd\[21869\]: pam_unix\(sshd:auth\): authentication failure\; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=91.92.109.43 user=sshd Aug 27 00:09:28 MK-Soft-Root1 sshd\[21869\]: Failed password for sshd from 91.92.109.43 port 45868 ssh2 Aug 27 00:09:29 MK-Soft-Root1 sshd\[21869\]: Failed password for sshd from 91.92.109.43 port 45868 ssh2 ... |
2019-08-27 06:10:33 |
| 139.99.37.147 | attackspambots | $f2bV_matches |
2019-08-27 05:56:40 |
| 137.74.25.247 | attack | $f2bV_matches |
2019-08-27 05:27:57 |
| 192.3.204.78 | attackspam | Aug 26 11:24:01 sachi sshd\[18906\]: Invalid user ts2 from 192.3.204.78 Aug 26 11:24:01 sachi sshd\[18906\]: pam_unix\(sshd:auth\): authentication failure\; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=192.3.204.78 Aug 26 11:24:02 sachi sshd\[18906\]: Failed password for invalid user ts2 from 192.3.204.78 port 43674 ssh2 Aug 26 11:28:03 sachi sshd\[19287\]: Invalid user spyware from 192.3.204.78 Aug 26 11:28:03 sachi sshd\[19287\]: pam_unix\(sshd:auth\): authentication failure\; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=192.3.204.78 |
2019-08-27 05:41:36 |
| 14.98.12.234 | attack | Unauthorized connection attempt from IP address 14.98.12.234 on Port 445(SMB) |
2019-08-27 05:31:48 |
| 112.160.86.128 | attackbots | port scan and connect, tcp 23 (telnet) |
2019-08-27 05:34:06 |
| 119.40.55.96 | attack | Aug 26 17:14:40 localhost sshd\[115750\]: pam_unix\(sshd:auth\): authentication failure\; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=119.40.55.96 user=root Aug 26 17:14:42 localhost sshd\[115750\]: Failed password for root from 119.40.55.96 port 47018 ssh2 Aug 26 17:17:25 localhost sshd\[115846\]: Invalid user admin from 119.40.55.96 port 47020 Aug 26 17:17:25 localhost sshd\[115846\]: pam_unix\(sshd:auth\): authentication failure\; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=119.40.55.96 Aug 26 17:17:27 localhost sshd\[115846\]: Failed password for invalid user admin from 119.40.55.96 port 47020 ssh2 ... |
2019-08-27 05:57:31 |
| 37.230.221.40 | attackspambots | Fail2Ban Ban Triggered |
2019-08-27 05:40:31 |
| 202.22.232.193 | attackspam | Aug 26 22:02:58 SilenceServices sshd[28661]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=202.22.232.193 Aug 26 22:03:01 SilenceServices sshd[28661]: Failed password for invalid user plm54321plm from 202.22.232.193 port 50024 ssh2 Aug 26 22:08:24 SilenceServices sshd[30729]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=202.22.232.193 |
2019-08-27 05:32:37 |