Re: Reply to Sean Donelan (was: Yet more hijacked space? - deru.net)

[jlewis () lewis org]

On Tue, 6 May 2003 alex () pilosoft com wrote:

> BS. Cogent provides publically available reassignment info in its rwhois 
> database. 
>
> Comment:    ********************************************
> Comment:    Reassignment information for this block is
> Comment:    available at rwhois.cogentco.com port 4321
> Comment:    ********************************************

Not for all of their blocks...at the very least, not for ones acquired via 
PSI.

$ whois 38.144.198.0 () rwhois cogentco com:4321
[rwhois.cogentco.com]
%rwhois V-1.5:0010b0:00 rwhois.cogentco.com
%Error 230 No objects found.

There are multiple systems in 38.144.198.0/24 spewing spam.  How do you 
tell who they belong to and how much address space they have?

Fortunately, in this case, reverse DNS and traceroutes make it pretty 
clear this is a single (entire) /24 of spammer systems.

Query:     38.144.198.0
Registry:  whois.arin.net
Results:
 
OrgName:    Performance Systems International Inc.
OrgID:      PSI
Address:    1015 31st Street, NW
City:       Washington
StateProv:  DC
PostalCode: 20007
Country:    US
 
NetRange:   38.0.0.0 - 38.255.255.255
CIDR:       38.0.0.0/8
NetName:    PSINETA
NetHandle:  NET-38-0-0-0-1
Parent:
NetType:    Direct Allocation
NameServer: NS.PSI.NET
NameServer: NS2.PSI.NET
Comment:
RegDate:    1991-04-16
Updated:    2003-03-14
                                                                                
TechHandle: PSI-NISC-ARIN
TechName:   PSINet, Inc.
TechPhone:  +1-518-283-8860
TechEmail:  hostinfo () psi com
                                                                                
OrgAbuseHandle: COGEN-ARIN
OrgAbuseName:   Cogent Abuse
OrgAbusePhone:  +1-877-875-4311
OrgAbuseEmail:  abuse () cogentco com
                                                                                
OrgNOCHandle: ZC108-ARIN
OrgNOCName:   Cogent Communications
OrgNOCPhone:  +1-877-875-4311
OrgNOCEmail:  noc () cogentco com
                                                                                
OrgTechHandle: IPALL-ARIN
OrgTechName:   IP Allocation
OrgTechPhone:  +1-877-875-4311
OrgTechEmail:  ipalloc () cogentco com

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