> I know that chances are these were just stepping stones for the malevolent
> person, but one thing that puzzles me:
> some ips have host names like "x5-Pad14-ecde.attcanada.net" or
> "ec-15ep.tin.it".
> Are these system generated host names, or assigned to dialin lines during
> connections, or ?

They are from banks of similar lines, dialin or otherwise. For example,
my IP for this PPP session is port038.sydney.blah.blah.blah
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