Re: WARNING: Whois mining operation (probably spam related).

["Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve () opaltelecom co uk>]

Blueyonder / Cableinet are both owned and ran by Telewest - a cable
company, its probably a cable modem customer...



On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Scott Francis wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 02:34:46AM -0600, nanog () adns net said:
> > Starting about 6am eastern time, we began getting several hundred hits per
> > second from IP address 195.188.22.6 to our WHOIS server.
> >
> > It appears that they were running a rather well endowed dictionary against
> > the database.
> >
> > Beware - these are spammers (I know the address very well). Check your logs
> > if you have any email servers or whois databases.
> >
> > This is a jerk from England who is a known fraudster.
> ====
> [sfrancis@silverlight:~]$ whois -r 195.188.22.6
> <snip>
> descr:        Please forward abuse issues
> descr:        to abuse () blueyonder co uk
> <snip>
> ====
>
> http://help.blueyonder.co.uk/rules/aup.html
>
> If this guy is obviously spamming, or data mining in preparation for
> spamming, it seems that blueyonder.co.uk could be contacted to have his
> access yanked. Failing that, cableinet.net could be contacted to have
> blueyonder.co.uk yanked.
>
> Of course, you may have already tried this and received little/no
> cooperation. *sigh*

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Stephen J. Wilcox
IP Services Manager, Opal Telecom
http://www.opaltelecom.co.uk/
Tel: 0161 222 2000
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