Re: IP Delegations for Forum Spammers and Invalid Whois info

2006-07-05 Thread Simon Waters
On Monday 03 Jul 2006 16:26, Phil Rosenthal wrote: We are very much anti-spam and I will look into Mark's issue - I'm looking through the tickets for abuse@ and there is no email sent in from [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... I suspect he tried [EMAIL PROTECTED] which seems to be in rfc-ignorant.

Re: IP Delegations for Forum Spammers and Invalid Whois info

2006-07-03 Thread Simon Waters
On Monday 03 Jul 2006 06:16, you wrote: Forgive the relative noobishness of the question, but I've not had to deal with this sort of situation before. Should I be forwarding to RIPE? I don't think RIPE will be that interested. The address range gets connectivity from someone. I suggest

Re: IP Delegations for Forum Spammers and Invalid Whois info

2006-07-03 Thread Gadi Evron
to provide updated, correct details? The IP range in question is 195.225.176.0 - 195.225.179.255 and a snippet of the whois info provided is as follows: remarks: remarks: * Abuse contacts: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * remarks

Re: IP Delegations for Forum Spammers and Invalid Whois info

2006-07-03 Thread Phil Rosenthal
Hello, On Jul 3, 2006, at 3:53 AM, Simon Waters wrote: On Monday 03 Jul 2006 06:16, you wrote: Forgive the relative noobishness of the question, but I've not had to deal with this sort of situation before. Should I be forwarding to RIPE? I don't think RIPE will be that interested.

IP Delegations for Forum Spammers and Invalid Whois info

2006-07-02 Thread Mark Foster
through bandwidth-supplier-agreements or somesuch. Shouldn't IP's with similarly invalid contact details be 'suspended' after being given opportunity to provide updated, correct details? The IP range in question is 195.225.176.0 - 195.225.179.255 and a snippet of the whois info provided

Re: Finding useful/pertinent IP reallocation WHOIS info

2005-02-25 Thread Michael . Dillon
http://lacnic.net/cgi-bin/lacnic/whois?lg=EN ...you can find that: #These addresses have been further assigned to Brazilian users. #Contact information can be found at the WHOIS server located #at whois.registro.br and at http://whois.nic.br Well, if you could speak Portuguese you would

Re: Finding useful/pertinent IP reallocation WHOIS info

2005-02-25 Thread Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
I can assure you, this Brazilian ISP is not small... :-) I have visited with them (as well as a couple of other ISP's in Brazil), and communicating with them has never been a problem, at least for the ones that I have previously met with. As an aside (and not intentionally meaning to sound

Finding useful/pertinent IP reallocation WHOIS info

2005-02-24 Thread Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
Can anyone provide a better way to find, say, the appropriate contact information for address blocks that are further rellocated from the regional registries? I've about reached my frustration levels over the course of the past year on the issue. Example: Trying to find the approriate contact

Re: Finding useful/pertinent IP reallocation WHOIS info

2005-02-24 Thread Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
Thanks to all who responded privately off-list. What I was looking for: http://registro.br/cgi-bin/nicbr/whois ..which wasn't exactly intuitive from the main page: http://registro.br/index.html Also, I liked the alternative suggestion of: telnet rwhois.whatever.foo 4321 enter dotted quad

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-13 Thread Michael . Dillon
So my view of it is the same as current practice and laws (at least in US) which require business (including DBA) registrations in county/state registrar and requirying and making public corporate records, including address of the company and list of its officers. Interesting how many

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-13 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Interesting how many companies are parked at a lawyers office, i.e. the official address of the company is that of it's legal firm. One wonders why an abuse organization would not use this same tactic and register a legal firm as the administrative contact. How

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-13 Thread Jack Bates
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The network itself is the primary contact information for a domain. Every nameserver has an IP address whose connectivity can be tracked through the network. Same thing for mail servers and anything else with an A record. This means that operationally it is far more

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-12 Thread Janet Sullivan
william(at)elan.net wrote: It matters if we're talking about Tom, John or Susan working for some commercial company and contacting me as part of the activity of that entity, in that case I'd like to know about the domain and don't want to see its whois data hidden. I find it somewhat amusing

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-12 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Janet Sullivan wrote: william(at)elan.net wrote: It matters if we're talking about Tom, John or Susan working for some commercial company and contacting me as part of the activity of that entity, in that case I'd like to know about the domain and don't want to

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-12 Thread Alex Bligh
--On 11 December 2004 12:07 -0500 Rich Kulawiec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't want to turn this into a domain policy discussion, Ditto. I'd add one thing though: allowing anonymous registration is not necessarily the same thing as allowing all details of registration to be publicly queryable

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-12 Thread Rich Kulawiec
I'm going to try to keep this short, hence it's incomplete/choppy. Maybe we should take it to off-list mail with those interested. On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 10:06:10PM -0700, Janet Sullivan wrote: Great! So, if you are a vulnerable minority, don't use the internet. I said precisely the

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-12 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Rich, registrar_hat_current=on epp_coauthor_hat=on registry_hat_expired=on You have an opinion, but I'm unable to detect a basis for that opinion. Allocations of string-space do not give rise to control over any resource other than (conditionally) the

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-12 Thread Janet Sullivan
Rich Kulawiec wrote: And the other side of it is: I don't think an Internet with anonymous people controlling operational resources is workable. OK, how many anonymous domains (ala domainsbyproxy) have you been unable to contact? I *never* attempt to contact the owners of a domain which

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-12 Thread Steve Gibbard
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Janet Sullivan wrote: I'm confused. You never try to contact the owners of a domain which appears to be the source of abuse, but insist that domains can't be anonymous? All rhetoric aside, this appears to be a question of what it means to have a domain. Once upon a

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-12 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Janet Sullivan wrote: Rich Kulawiec wrote: 1. Anyone controlling an operational resource (such as a domain) can't be anonymous. This _in no way_ prevents anyone from doing things anonymously on the Internet: it just means that they can't control an operational

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-11 Thread Rich Kulawiec
I don't want to turn this into a domain policy discussion, but here are a few comments (in some semblance of order) which relate to the operational aspects. 1. Anyone controlling an operational resource (such as a domain) can't be anonymous. This _in no way_ prevents anyone from doing things

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-11 Thread Janet Sullivan
Rich Kulawiec wrote: 1. Anyone controlling an operational resource (such as a domain) can't be anonymous. This _in no way_ prevents anyone from doing things anonymously on the Internet: it just means that they can't control an operational resource, because that way lies madness. As long as that

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-10 Thread Peter Corlett
william(at)elan.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Read NANOG archives - Verisign now allows immediate (well, within about 10 minutes) updates of .com/.net zones (also same for .biz) while whois data is still updated once or twice a day. That means if spammer registers new domain he'll be

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-10 Thread Elmar K. Bins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Corlett) wrote: william(at)elan.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Read NANOG archives - Verisign now allows immediate (well, within about 10 minutes) updates of .com/.net zones (also same for .biz) while whois data is still updated once or twice a day. That

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-10 Thread Ken Gilmour
information by default. For example, one of the domains I've registered has only the registrant name and the DNS host's name. This is our full .ie whois info: domain: blah descr: BLAH descr: Body Corporate (Ltd,PLC,Company) descr: Registered Business Name admin-c: ABA822-IEDR tech-c: IBH1-IEDR

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-10 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Elmar K. Bins wrote: william(at)elan.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Read NANOG archives - Verisign now allows immediate (well, within about 10 minutes) updates of .com/.net zones (also same for .biz) while whois data is still updated once or twice a day.

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-10 Thread Peter Corlett
Elmar K. Bins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Corlett) wrote: [...] This tempts me to hack something into Exim that does a whois on previously-unseen sender domains, and give a deferral if the whois denies existence of the domain. Is this likely to have any meaningful

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-10 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Peter Corlett wrote: There's some awful tinpot domain registrars out there where you have to wonder if their whois server is on the end of a dialup link, but fortunately I'm not attempting to access those. Connectivity from here to the CRSNIC server is good and no worse than to any other server I

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-10 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
In an earlier episode I pointed out to the list-resident VGRS person that the dynamic properties introduced for one marketing purpose would have a consequence in another problem domain, but no point revisiting that issue. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Corlett) wrote: There's some awful tinpot

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-10 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, kent crispin wrote: I disagree, I think this may be ok, but its specifically because its for .com/.net whois (not ok for general TLD). Reasons are: 1. Internic.net / CRSNIC whois has no limit set on number of queries client from particular ip can make before

no whois info ?

2004-12-09 Thread Mike Tancsa
registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information. No match for VESTIGIAL3HAD.COM. yet, shell1% host -tns vestigial3had.com vestigial3had.com name server ns1.kronuna.biz vestigial3had.com name server ns2.kronuna.biz shell1% What gives ? How can their be no whois info anywhere

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-09 Thread william(at)elan.net
their be no whois info anywhere ? Read NANOG archives - Verisign now allows immediate (well, within about 10 minutes) updates of .com/.net zones (also same for .biz) while whois data is still updated once or twice a day. That means if spammer registers new domain he'll be able to use it immediatly and it'll

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-09 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 11:17 AM 09/12/2004, william(at)elan.net wrote: Read NANOG archives - Verisign now allows immediate (well, within about 10 minutes) updates of .com/.net zones (also same for .biz) Yes, I was aware of that. while whois data is still updated once or twice a day. I (wrongly) assumed that the

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-09 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 01:50 PM 09/12/2004, Jeff Rosowski wrote: shell1% whois vestigial3had.com ... No match for VESTIGIAL3HAD.COM. What gives ? How can there be no whois info anywhere ? You can also make whois information private, usually for an additional fee. I wonder what % of domains that have their whois info

RE: no whois info ?

2004-12-09 Thread Hannigan, Martin
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 2:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: no whois info ? At 01:50 PM 09/12/2004, Jeff Rosowski wrote: shell1% whois vestigial3had.com ... No match for VESTIGIAL3HAD.COM

RE: no whois info ?

2004-12-09 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 02:44 PM 09/12/2004, Hannigan, Martin wrote: Perhaps 100% of spammers hide their registration data when possible, but I wouldn't say that 100% of hidden registrations are spammers. An RBL option of this type of data would probably mean forced elimination of a benefit to the public - privacy.

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-09 Thread Daniel Senie
At 02:33 PM 12/9/2004, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 01:50 PM 09/12/2004, Jeff Rosowski wrote: shell1% whois vestigial3had.com ... No match for VESTIGIAL3HAD.COM. What gives ? How can there be no whois info anywhere ? You can also make whois information private, usually for an additional fee. I wonder

RE: no whois info ?

2004-12-09 Thread Hannigan, Martin
-Original Message- From: Mike Tancsa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 3:00 PM To: Hannigan, Martin; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: no whois info ? At 02:44 PM 09/12/2004, Hannigan, Martin wrote: [SNIP] There has to be a balance between expectations

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-09 Thread Mike Tancsa
, the email address goes through a redirect or is handled by an agent trusted by the domain holder? Yes, I agree. I am talking about not having *ANY* whois info. I dont see how any of your arguments justify % whois vestigial3had.com Whois Server Version 1.3 Domain names in the .com and .net domains can

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-09 Thread Peter John Hill
Jeff Rosowski wrote: shell1% whois vestigial3had.com ... No match for VESTIGIAL3HAD.COM. What gives ? How can their be no whois info anywhere ? How about the following... (note that just because someone is using someone as their authoritative name server doesn't mean that the other people

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-09 Thread Raymond Dijkxhoorn
Hi! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ dig ns vestigial3had.com snip ;; ANSWER SECTION: vestigial3had.com. 172800 IN NS ns1.kronuna.biz. vestigial3had.com. 172800 IN NS ns2.kronuna.biz. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ whois kronuna.biz [Querying whois.neulevel.biz] [whois.neulevel.biz]

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-09 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 07:49 PM 09/12/2004, Peter John Hill wrote: Jeff Rosowski wrote: shell1% whois vestigial3had.com ... No match for VESTIGIAL3HAD.COM. What gives ? How can their be no whois info anywhere ? How about the following... (note that just because someone is using someone as their authoritative name

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-09 Thread Peter John Hill
More fun... Mike Tancsa wrote: 1M IN MX10 www 1M IN A 200.124.75.12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ whois 200.124.75.12 inetnum: 200.124.64/19 responsible: GoldToe International Inc. address: 60 Market Square, 0, 0 address: 0 -

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-09 Thread Janet Sullivan
I wonder what % of domains that have their whois info hidden or private are throwaway spam domains... Some number approaching 100% I would bet. It would be nice to somehow incorporate this into a SpamAssassin check somehow. Please don't, there are legitimate reasons to have private domain

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-09 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 10:32 PM 09/12/2004, Janet Sullivan wrote: I wonder what % of domains that have their whois info hidden or private are throwaway spam domains... Some number approaching 100% I would bet. It would be nice to somehow incorporate this into a SpamAssassin check somehow. Please don't