[13821] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Has spam factory dakotacom.net moved from ACSI to Alternet ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ehud Gavron)
Tue Nov 18 01:36:47 1997
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 23:21:58 -0700 (MST)
From: Ehud Gavron <GAVRON@ACES.COM>
In-reply-to: "Your message dated Mon, 17 Nov 1997 16:21:30 -0500 (EST)"
<Pine.BSI.3.91.971117161509.994A-100000@ivan.iecc.com>
To: John R Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, GAVRON@ACES.COM
Dakota says they have a "super fast DS3 backbone" and on the
phone their sales people have said they "are the backbone."
Reality includes a T-1 to Alternet, and an Ethernet drop from
ACSI. GTWINC uses Dakotacom to spam the net, and I've heard
that there are others (access) who are now joining their group.
Dakota does not use or understand BGP, are shunned by local
providers and interconnects, and uses two non-redundant net
blocks -- one from Alter over that link, and one from ACSI
over that link.
You'll note they switched their dns to use the Alter net
blocks. A quick traceroute to gtwinc shows they're still
there too:
11 tucson-az-1-a12-0.acsi.net (206.222.97.8) [AS 6467] 112 msec 116 msec 128 ms
ec
12 dakotacom.net.tucson-az-1.acsi.net (206.222.101.238) [AS 6467] 116 msec 116
msec 156 msec
...
They do not respond to email, do not read this list, do not
peer with anyone, and provide service to spammers.
All information correct to the best of my knowledge, ads in the
yellow pages, stuff said on the phone, and public information.
Ehud
>I've been receiving buckets of spam from dakotacom.net, as many as 90 per
>day. They've been connected to ACSI for many months.
>ACSI has a new anti-spam AUP that went into effect today. Today I see that
>traceroutes to Dakotacom go through Alternet and
>medic-net-gw.customer.ALTER.NET. But the route looks odd, maybe a leak
>rather than a new real route.
>I don't speak BGP (my multi-homed ISP does that for me), so can anyone see
>who's announcing 207.201.204.0/255.255.252.0 ? ACSI? Alternet? Both?
>Regards,
>John Levine, postmaster@abuse.net, http://www.abuse.net, Trumansburg NY
>abuse.net postmaster
