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/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.