IP of machine hacking account?



Someone is trying to hack one of our (formerly) admin accounts in AD on
Server 2003 using a bad password and causing the account to lock and the
event viewer shows the login attempt coming from a machine with a name which
is not on our network.

This has been happening every day at a different time of day and every time
the machine name is different. The only constant is the account being
attacked is the same every time. It would really help if there was a way to
get the IP address and not just the name of the machine. I have looked in
our DNS and DHCP database and found no machines we do not recognize.

Thank you in advance if you have a suggestion for me.

-Bob


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