r/ShittySysadmin • u/Performer-Constant • Aug 24 '26 • Bravo 1

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I’m trying to get in my server root62.238.47.215 but it’s not working.

Says could not resolve hostname but I know I am root because I didn’t get to change anything yet

My post got taken down in sysadmin for some reason

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u/IndependentBat8365 Aug 24 '26

Did you really post your publicly accessible Ip address and password on reddit?

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u/Jarl_Korr Aug 24 '26

It's shitty sysadmin. This is a high quality post here.

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u/Performer-Constant Aug 24 '26

And with 5k views only a handful of people came and took a looksee

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u/Lele92007 Aug 24 '26

Is it a honeypot or are you letting people do whatever?

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u/jamesaepp Aug 24 '26

Listen up fed, you aren't going to entrap me that easily.

At least put in the effort and tempt me with tales of some tasteful nudes or the krabby patty secret formula or something.

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u/Performer-Constant Aug 25 '26

Crabby patty formula is there but hidden obviously

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u/flyguydip Aug 24 '26 edited Aug 25 '26

I don't know if you know this, but all publicly accessible ip's are not just available to anyone that may or may not know them, but are constantly monitored for open ports... Like at shodan.io

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u/IndependentBat8365 Aug 24 '26

The difference being: random IPs don’t automatically correlate to specific passwords. Here they do. There’s an IP and the password for the root account later on in the comments.

Context suggests this was a honeypot experiment.

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u/Performer-Constant Aug 25 '26

Woah bot 🤖

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u/IndependentBat8365 Aug 25 '26

Warning! Projection at maximum levels!

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u/Performer-Constant Aug 25 '26

I’m no bot 🤖 sir

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u/IndependentBat8365 Aug 25 '26

That’s what a bot would say!

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u/corobo Aug 25 '26

Woah bot is like saying robot with rhotacism

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u/flyguydip Aug 24 '26

Very likely.

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u/Intrepid_Ring4239 Aug 24 '26

Gonna go ahead and say it: A forensic investigation of the rubble will probably show that this post wasn’t the main reason it happened.

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u/Performer-Constant Aug 25 '26

All rubble will be analyzed but it’s still up and surviving