While fiddling with our firewall last night, I noticed that it showed 5 devices connected. That’s odd, I thought, since I only have 4 computers on the LAN. I looked around the family room, but no dice. We have 2 Mac Minis, 2 Mac towers, and that’s it… there’s an elderly G3 Powerbook in the kitchen, but it’s on the guest wireless network which is ’sandboxed’ off from the LAN.

Mystery computer, which has a fixed IP unlike the rest of the LAN machines, shows the default Apache homepage when contacted via http. It doesn’t respond to telnet, but it does respond to ssh, though I have no idea what the password is. I just checked the garage, which used to have a rack of servers, but those machines were turned off long ago. I’m stumped…

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