[6720] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: URGENT: Operational Integrity Problem with IQ-INTERNET.COM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Bowman)
Fri Jan 3 17:56:02 1997
From: Robert Bowman <rob@elite.exodus.net>
To: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 15:49:45 -0800 (PST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199701032226.AA00029@world.std.com> from "Barry Shein" at Jan 3, 97 05:26:00 pm
What relevance does this have to the NANOG community?
rob
>
>
> Reference: Sprint Customer Larry Host
> Domain: IQ-INTERNET.COM
> Problem Summary: Out of control mail loop
>
> 1. For the past 48 or so hours all e-mail from the domain
> IQ-INTERNET.COM has been blocked from our domain, STD.COM. All such
> email is refused with an immediate error message by our (std.com)
> server.
>
> 2. The account lhost@iq-internet.com, owner or adminstrator of this
> iq-internet.com domain, has been informed of this many times in this
> period. Messages have been left on their answering machine. Sprint
> personnel attempted to relay this message to him though I do not know
> if they were successful. Sprint security personnel have publically and
> privately (to me) acknowledged the problem.
>
> 3. Electronic mail continues to be sent (as of 17:17 EST) from
> iq-internet.com to world.std.com at a rate of several messages per
> minute, each one refused.
>
> THIS IS NOT A POLICY PROBLEM -- THIS IS A TECHNICAL PROBLEM.
>
> There is no reason for a host to send thousands of email msgs each
> being refused long after being informed of this state of affairs
> except:
>
> a) maliciousness
> b) severe technical failure or error,
> or gross operating negligence.
>
> I informed Sprint of this several hours ago, I reported it as a
> *TECHNICAL* problem although apparently Sprint network personnel
> continue to infer that they can read the system owner's mind and
> intuit that he is doing this for relatively innocent or purposeful
> reasons such that Sprint can not get involved.
>
> I assert this judgement by Sprint network personnel is a serious error
> and Sprint is ignoring a severe technical problem to the active
> detriment of the world-wide internetwork.
>
> There is a knowing dereliction of TECHNICAL AND OPERATIONAL
> responsibilities occurring here, and this abrogation of administrative
> responsibility is causing my business palpable damage, with full
> knowledge of authorized Sprint network operational and security
> personnel and more than sufficient time for them to have responded.
>
> xc: Sprint Legal Dept, Software Tool & Die Counsel
>
>
> --
> -Barry Shein
>
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