Some good news... possibly. I finally complained to ARIN (for the 4th time) that the contact information for the Inktomi address blocks was incorrect, as Inktomi hasn't existed as a corporate (and legal) entity for some time... it was acquired by Yahoo! 3 years ago, and their address blocks have all been repurposed for Yahoo! server infrastructure and as such should reflect that reality.
So ARIN flagged the address block registry information as INVALID, and will ask the Yahoo contact person (Joan Luster) to address this issue next time they are in communication with her. Why is this useful? Well, every time I personally report an issue with them, I get the very annoying auto-reply that says: > Once you have identified the IP address, you can conduct an IP lookup to > determine which ISP provides this person with Internet access. One such > lookup tool you may want to try is: > > http://www.arin.net/whois/ > > You can then attempt to contact that ISP to report any abuse activities > occurring within their service. > which raises my blood pressure, because ARIN whois indicates they *are* the owner of that netblock (as Inktomi). The upshot is that the OrgID: and NetName: records will no longer be INKT and INKTOMI-NET-* respectively... so that gives them one less rock to hide under. (And it's entirely possible their autoresponders are mistakenly keying off these particular record fields when doing prefiltering... giving them the benefit of the doubt.) We'll see how it goes, and I'll try to keep the list current. Keep your fingers crossed. -Philip
