It's Friday evening (in North America) so you know what to expect
william at elan.net
william at elan.net
Sat May 3 03:07:44 UTC 2003
Sorry about this. I meant to reply privately to Richard and not send this
to everyone...
On Fri, 2 May 2003 william at elan.net wrote:
> The address "GPO BOx 1670N" is associated with Department of Planning annd
> Development with phone# being very close. Here is the info:
>
> DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING DEVELOPMENT
>
> Myer House, 250 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne 3000
> (GPO Box 1670N, Melbourne 3001)
> Phone: (03) 9669 1100 Fax: (03) 9669 1005
>
> Secretary of the Department
> Mr Barry Nicholls
> Ph: (03) 9669 1100; Fax: (03) 9663 1670
> Executive Assistant: Ms Julie Kyriakou, Phone: (03) 9669 1864
>
> However I do not think based on looking at www.vic.gov.au that this
> department is still operating, so 2nd best guess would be Department of
> Human Services in Victoria, Australia, (they have subunit called "office
> of housing"). Their domain is dhs.vic.gov.au and you can lookup technical
> contact info in whois on this ("whois -h whois.aunic.net dhs.gov.au") and
> also see http://www.dhs.vic.gov.au/contact.htm
>
> On Sat, 3 May 2003, Richard Cox wrote:
>
> >
> > This evening it appeared that AS 9929 (China Netcom Corporation)
> > had started to BGP announce the netblock "HCV": 152.147.0.0/16
> >
> > That netblock is assigned by ARIN to
> >
> > OrgName: Housing and Construction Victoria
> > OrgID: HCV
> > Address: GPO Box 1670N
> > Address: Melbourne, Victoria 3001
> > Country: AU
> > NetRange: 152.147.0.0 - 152.147.255.255
> > CIDR: 152.147.0.0/16
> > NetName: HOUSINGVIC
> > NetHandle: NET-152-147-0-0-1
> > Parent: NET-152-0-0-0-0
> > NetType: Direct Assignment
> > RegDate: 1991-08-23
> > Updated: 1991-08-23
> > TechHandle: TL152-ARIN
> > TechName: Lewis, Terry
> > TechPhone: +61 3 669 1028
> >
> > Housing and Construction Victoria are most certainly not in China.
> > Given the timing, the intention here hardly needs spelling out.
> >
> > Roland Verlander, who lives in Australia, very helpfully tells me:
> >
> > "The contact information is outdated, so I unfortunately cannot attempt
> > to contact the original owner. I searched AUNIC for POCs with the name
> > Terry Lewis but I only found other people named Terry Lewis. APNIC has
> > no results on Terry Lewis."
> >
> > "The phone number isn't valid, all phone #s in Oz were changed to
> > 8 digits a few years ago (that one's 7 digits) and old 7 digit numbers
> > don't work anymore; +61 3 669 1028 would have been converted to either
> > +61 3 8669 1028 or +61 3 9669 1028."
> >
> > (I checked - neither of those possibilities is a working number)
> >
> > "No entry in the phone book (white pages) for the name Terry Lewis.
> > The organisation is not legally registered and I can't find a website
> > for it, so I guess it no longer exists"
> >
> > From: http://www.cidr-report.org/cgi-bin/as-report?as=9929
> >
> > Upstream Adjacent AS list for AS9929:
> > AS4637 REACH Reach Network Border AS
> > AS1 GNTY-1 Genuity
> > AS7018 ATT-INTERNET4 AT&T WorldNet Services
> > AS2516 KDDI KDDI CORPORATION
> > AS3549 GBLX Global Crossing
> > AS3356 LEVEL3 Level 3 Communications, LLC
> > AS1239 SPRINTLINK Sprint
> > AS3561 CWUSA Cable & Wireless USA
> > AS701 ALTERNET-AS UUNET Technologies, Inc.
> >
> > Ladies and gentlemen, you may wish to adjust your routing.
> >
> > Richard Cox
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