Spamford Getting Service From Cable & Wireless? (fwd)

Brett Hawn blh at texas.net
Wed May 28 13:33:06 UTC 1997


Anyone else have any information on this?
 

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Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 04:09:32 -0700
From: Babu Mengelepouti <dialtone at vcn.bc.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Spamford Getting Service From Cable & Wireless?

Spamford appears to be multi-homed, if the research I have done is any
indication.

I took the novel approach of looking up who owns the IP blocks that his
nameservers run on.  His nameservers are easily obtainable by a simple
whois:

Cyber Promotions, Inc (CYBERPROMO-DOM)

   8001 Castor Avenue  Suite #127

   Philadelphia, PA 19152

   US


   Domain Name: CYBERPROMO.COM


   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:

      Wallace, Sanford  (SW1708)  domreg at CYBERPROMO.COM

      215-628-9780

   Billing Contact:

      Wallace, Sanford  (SW1708)  domreg at CYBERPROMO.COM

      215-628-9780


   Record last updated on 24-Jan-97.

   Record created on 26-Apr-96.

   Database last updated on 25-May-97 04:56:34 EDT.


   Domain servers in listed order:



   NS7.CYBERPROMO.COM           205.199.2.250

   NS5.CYBERPROMO.COM           205.199.212.50

   NS8.CYBERPROMO.COM           207.124.161.65

   NS9.CYBERPROMO.COM           207.124.161.50



Well, starting with ns7.cyberpromo.com, it's no surprise:

Whois: net 205.199.2
AGIS/Net99 (NETBLK-NET99-BLK4)  NET99-BLK4         205.198.0.0 -
205.199.255.0
Cyber Promotions  Inc (NETBLK-CYBERPROMO-205-199B) CYBERPROMO-205-199B
                                                   205.199.2.0 -
205.199.2.255 

And the same for ns5.cyberpromo.com...

Whois: whois net 205.199.212
AGIS/Net99 (NETBLK-NET99-BLK4)  NET99-BLK4         205.198.0.0 -
205.199.255.0
Cyber Promotions  Inc (NETBLK-CYBERPROMO-205-199) CYBERPROMO-205-199
                                               205.199.212.0 -
205.199.212.255 

But wait?  Is spamford multihoming? A Cable & Wireless Class C block!  

Whois: net 207.124.161
Cable & Wireless, Inc. (NETBLK-NET3-CWI-NET) NET3-CWI-NET
                                                 207.124.0.0 -
207.124.255.255
IDCI (NETBLK-CWI-IDCI2)         CWI-IDCI2      207.124.160.0 -
207.124.164.255
IDCI (NETBLK-IDCI-BLK-11)       IDCI-BLK-11    207.124.161.0 -
207.124.162.255 

But strangely, it doesn't resolve...

  1  2427 ms  2135 ms  2716 ms  Max18.Seattle.WA.MS.UU.NET [207.76.5.24]
  2  1235 ms   929 ms   477 ms  Ar1.Seattle.WA.MS.UU.NET [207.76.5.3]
  3   175 ms   167 ms   623 ms  Fddi0-0.CR1.SEA1.Alter.Net
[137.39.33.41]
  4   213 ms   263 ms   265 ms  110.Hssi4-0.CR1.TCO1.Alter.Net
[137.39.69.121]
  5   271 ms   264 ms   597 ms  313.atm1-0.gw1.tco1.alter.net
[137.39.21.153]
  6   258 ms   990 ms   244 ms  cwix2-gw.customer.ALTER.NET
[137.39.184.82]
  7   739 ms   482 ms   655 ms  nyd-7513-1-h4-0.cwix.net
[207.124.104.50]
  8   581 ms   257 ms   490 ms  ny1-7000-02-f0/0.cwi.net
[205.136.191.228]
  9   634 ms  1044 ms  1183 ms  ny1-7000-01-f4/0.cwi.net
[205.136.191.227]
 10   580 ms   358 ms   297 ms  idci-cwi.cwi.net [205.136.226.210]
 11   232 ms   731 ms   302 ms  phl-bcn1-client-router.idci.net
[205.136.21.3]
 12  1267 ms  1197 ms   899 ms  146.145.254.62
 13     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 14     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 15     *        *        *     Request timed out.


And another!

Whois: net 207.124.161
Cable & Wireless, Inc. (NETBLK-NET3-CWI-NET) NET3-CWI-NET
                                                 207.124.0.0 -
207.124.255.255
IDCI (NETBLK-CWI-IDCI2)         CWI-IDCI2      207.124.160.0 -
207.124.164.255
IDCI (NETBLK-IDCI-BLK-11)       IDCI-BLK-11    207.124.161.0 -
207.124.162.255 
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
What is IDCI, I wonder?

This one doesn't resolve either.

  1   532 ms   188 ms   168 ms  Max18.Seattle.WA.MS.UU.NET [207.76.5.24]
  2  1284 ms  2128 ms  2321 ms  Ar1.Seattle.WA.MS.UU.NET [207.76.5.3]
  3  3037 ms  2575 ms   453 ms  Fddi0-0.CR1.SEA1.Alter.Net
[137.39.33.41]
  4   634 ms   475 ms   241 ms  110.Hssi4-0.CR1.TCO1.Alter.Net
[137.39.69.121]
  5   887 ms  1357 ms   929 ms  313.atm1-0.gw1.tco1.alter.net
[137.39.21.153]
  6   508 ms   447 ms   260 ms  cwix2-gw.customer.ALTER.NET
[137.39.184.82]
  7   284 ms   275 ms   270 ms  nyd-7513-1-h4-0.cwix.net
[207.124.104.50]
  8   610 ms   495 ms     *     ny1-7000-02-f0/0.cwi.net
[205.136.191.228]
  9   300 ms   264 ms   683 ms  ny1-7000-01-f4/0.cwi.net
[205.136.191.227]
 10   621 ms   233 ms   275 ms  idci-cwi.cwi.net [205.136.226.210]
 11   275 ms   250 ms   767 ms  phl-bcn1-client-router.idci.net
[205.136.21.3]
 12   648 ms   954 ms   647 ms  146.145.254.58
 13     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 14     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 15     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 16     *        *        *     Request timed out.

Could Spamford have another provider up his sleeve?  I wonder if Cable
& Wireless is planning to give him a link when Agis finally bites the
bullet and drops him.

I could drop a couple of suggestions.  Performing traceroutes into
random addresses in his class C blocks revealed some very interesting
results.  And finally, even though he has disabled nslookup on most of
his machines, he forgot one ...

So here ya go.  nslookups on his most infamous domains...

 answerme.com.                  SOA   answerme.com
hostmaster.cyberpromo.com. (1
17 172800 3600 1728000 172800)
 answerme.com.                  NS    ns7.cyberpromo.com
 answerme.com.                  NS    ns9.cyberpromo.com
 answerme.com.                  MX    5    answerme.com
 answerme.com.                  A     205.199.212.8
 localhost                      A     127.0.0.1
 ftp                            CNAME answerme.com
 news                           CNAME answerme.com
 www                            CNAME cybermirror1.com
 answerme.com.                  SOA   answerme.com
hostmaster.cyberpromo.com. (1
17 172800 3600 1728000 172800)

 cybermirror1.com.              SOA   cybermirror1.com
hostmaster.cyberpromo.com
 . (117 172800 3600 1728000 172800)
 cybermirror1.com.              NS    ns7.cyberpromo.com
 cybermirror1.com.              NS    ns9.cyberpromo.com
 cybermirror1.com.              MX    5    cybermirror1.com
 cybermirror1.com.              A     205.199.2.248
 answerme                       A     205.199.212.8
 news                           CNAME cybermirror1.com
 localhost                      A     127.0.0.1
 www                            CNAME cybermirror1.com
 auto1                          A     205.199.212.36
 auto2                          A     207.124.161.91
 auto3                          A     207.124.161.78
 ftp                            CNAME cybermirror1.com
 cybermirror1.com.              SOA   cybermirror1.com
hostmaster.cyberpromo.com
 . (117 172800 3600 1728000 172800)


 cyberpromo.com.                SOA   cyberpromo.com
hostmaster.cyberpromo.com.
(126 172800 3600 1728000 172800)
 cyberpromo.com.                NS    ns7.cyberpromo.com
 cyberpromo.com.                NS    ns9.cyberpromo.com
 cyberpromo.com.                MX    5    cyberpromo.com
 cyberpromo.com.                MX    10   cyberpromo.com
 cyberpromo.com.                A     205.199.212.36
 news                           CNAME cyberpromo.com
 ns5                            A     205.199.212.50
 ns5                            MX    10   ns5.cyberpromo.com
 ns7                            MX    10   cyberpromo.com
 ns7                            A     205.199.2.250
 ns8                            A     207.124.161.65
 ns8                            MX    10   ns8.cyberpromo.com
 localhost                      A     127.0.0.1
 localhost                      A     205.199.212.36
 localhost                      MX    10   cyberpromo.com
 ns9                            A     207.124.161.51
 ns9                            MX    10   ns9.cyberpromo.com
 www                            A     205.199.2.247
 ftp                            CNAME cyberpromo.com
 cyberpromo.com.                SOA   cyberpromo.com
hostmaster.cyberpromo.com.
(126 172800 3600 1728000 172800)


 ispam.net.                     SOA   ispam.net
hostmaster.cyberpromo.com. (113
172800 3600 1728000 172800)
 ispam.net.                     NS    ns7.cyberpromo.com
 ispam.net.                     NS    ns9.cyberpromo.com
 ispam.net.                     A     205.199.212.34
 ispam.net.                     MX    5    ispam.net
 localhost                      A     127.0.0.1
 ftp                            CNAME ispam.net
 news                           CNAME ispam.net
 www                            CNAME cyberpromo.com
 ispam.net.                     SOA   ispam.net
hostmaster.cyberpromo.com. (113
172800 3600 1728000 172800)


 keepmailing.com.               SOA   keepmailing.com
hostmaster.cyberpromo.com.
 (111 172800 3600 1728000 172800)
 keepmailing.com.               NS    ns7.cyberpromo.com
 keepmailing.com.               NS    ns9.cyberpromo.com
 keepmailing.com.               MX    5    keepmailing.com
 keepmailing.com.               A     205.199.212.30
 localhost                      A     127.0.0.1
 ftp                            CNAME keepmailing.com
 news                           CNAME keepmailing.com
 www                            CNAME keepmailing.com
 keepmailing.com.               SOA   keepmailing.com
hostmaster.cyberpromo.com.
 (111 172800 3600 1728000 172800)


Happy umm ... exploring.  Of course, I would NEVER want ANYONE to even
THINK of doing anything malicious with this information.  HACKING IS
ILLEGAL!  I love Jeff Slaton.  I love Spamford.  They help the economy.
AGIS is our friend.

   .
  /|\
 //|\\ Welcome to the rainforest...
///|\\\ dialtone at vcn.bc.ca


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Thank you very much for passing that
information along. Anyone from Cable & Wireless want to look into
things from that side and give us a followup?   PAT]



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