[119631] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: I got a live one! - Spam source
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin Shore)
Wed Nov 25 02:28:32 2009
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:27:04 -0600
From: Justin Shore <justin@justinshore.com>
To: Russell Myba <rusmyba@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <5e1ca1ac0911242007v1b6cb4a7gd2b08a37b4226d1e@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Russell Myba wrote:
> Let's say our direct customer is CustomerA. They seem to buy rackspace from
> BusinessB. CustomerA seem to retain BusinessC for "IT Solutions" even
> though all three entities purport to be IT solutions providers.
> BusinessC came into the picture after the spamming started saying a wholly
> different /24 (Different from the spam source) "doesn't work". It routes
> fine on our end. I have a feeling they've been added to some RBLs but I
> haven't found them listed yet.
>
> Just a simple ethernet handoff in a colo. We delegated rDNS to the servers
> of their choice and haven't heard a peep out of them until now.
I think it's an absolute crying shame that a freak bolt of lighting
somehow fried their rackspace in the colo and didn't affect any of the
surrounding neighbors. I hate it when that happens. It's karma I think...
Justin
