[107674] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Teleglobe appears to be spam-source zombie network?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Wed Sep 10 21:23:35 2008
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:23:27 -0400
From: "Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: "Jo Rhett" <jrhett@netconsonance.com>
In-Reply-To: <03F411FC-74D6-48CA-84FC-16706B05BADE@netconsonance.com>
Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On 9/10/08, Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com> wrote:
> We started getting a flood of autobot spam to our listed abuse mailbox about
> an hour ago out of Teleglobe. Trying to find someone to shut this down has
> found that
>
> 1. Teleglobe has no listed abuse contacts for any of their netblocks
> 2. The few of their records which have listed e-mail addresses all bounce
> 3. All listed phone numbers on any netblocks we can find are invalid
>
> Any chance that RIPE is more strigent than ARIN and would pull their
> netblocks until they fix this stuff?
It's possible that in the shuffle of company
renaming/rebranding/rejiggering-of-people they lost this bit in the
shuffle. There's at least one TATA eng person on-list though who may
be able to get you a status on the situation.
-Chris
