Problems with .de abuse

Wed Mar 24 15:57:35 UTC 2004

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Erik Haagsman" <erik at we-dare.net>
To: <up at 3.am>
Cc: <nanog at merit.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: Problems with .de abuse

>
>
> > I sent the abuse email 2 days ago and got no response.  After 2 more
days
> > of this, I finally just tried to call that number, and it's bogus (or at
> > least not working).  Does anyone have a clue who this is and/or how to
> > actually get ahold of someone there (preferably one who speaks or
> > reads/writes English)?
>
> Try and reach them at peering at mcbone.net or try and contact their admin
> Jens Rosenboom at jens.rosenboom at freenet-ag.de
> I know it's not the regular channel, but  and we peer with them at
> DE-CIX and had similar problems a while back with IP's from their range
> scanning and trying out SNMP communities on our boxes. They responded on
> an e-mail sent to their peering address and we haven't had any further
> scans since, although your complaint seems to disrepute them further.

slightly OT, but it is a sad day when operators stop being responsible
neighbours and start responding to abuse reports only when their
{willy,peering} is on the line.

paul