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Re: Christmas spam from RESERVED IANA adressblock ?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Wed Dec 24 12:59:57 2008

Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:59:39 -0500
From: "William Herrin" <herrin-nanog@dirtside.com>
To: macbroadcast <marc@let.de>
In-Reply-To: <C442CBF4-05C3-422B-9DBB-A624C118C3D4@let.de>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 6:48 AM, macbroadcast <marc@let.de> wrote:
> just out of curiosity  i looked a bit closer into this spammail header,
> because this company is really annoying and abusing a lot of internet citizens.
>
>> Received: from web1.iispp.com (w1 [172.16.21.244]) by mx2.iispp.com
>> (Postfix) with ESMTP id B71CF3504DB for <marc@let.de>; Wed, 24 Dec 2008
>> 11:30:18 +0000 (UTC)

> CIDR:       172.16.0.0/12
> NetName:    IANA-BBLK-RESERVED

> so how is this possible ?

> Comment:    Please see RFC 1918 for additional information.
> Comment:    http://www.arin.net/reference/rfc/rfc1918.txt


Asked and answered.

Regards,
Bill Herrin



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