[84079] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FW: Need some help: IDEAS, Inc.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Vierling)
Sat Sep 3 12:58:53 2005
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 12:58:21 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
From: Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>
To: "Marcus H. Sachs" <marc@sachsfamily.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, handlers@sans.org
In-Reply-To: <03f601c5b098$2a3bd910$ac5030c0@Marc4>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sat, 3 Sep 2005, Marcus H. Sachs wrote:
> Right now, there are two weak points to this particular house of cards.
>
> 1) The first site listed, "http://www.hurricanekatrinarelief.com" is what
> drives all of the others. Each of the other sites, loads the first one in
> an IFRAME. That makes it easy for the bastards to update them all. This
> site is hosted by Interland. Their final word on shutting these scumballs
> down until they could prove they were legitimate was:
>
> "We have been advised by our legal department that the local authorities
> should be contacted. The local authorities can submit a subpoena to our
> legal department. We will be glad to comply to such a request."
>
> ie. "We have no balls. Go away".
Or "We are aiding and abetting". But that may be a little too paranoid,
even for me. :-P
> 2) All of the other sites are hosted at the IP address 206.251.184.10.
That's one of DirectNIC's domain redirectors. Which makes sense, because:
> All of the "slave" sites at 206.251.184.10 use DirectNIC for their DNS...
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