who's receiving comvalid/bgpsentinel spam? (Re: BGP )

Thu Dec 15 14:22:15 UTC 2005

On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 paul at vix.com wrote:

> is anybody else receiving this spam when they advertise a new AS nowadays?
> (i'm trying to figure out which whois information is being policy-violated
> and who to complain about, but if i'm the only one receiving it, i may JHD.)

They are likely violating policy of their ISP in regarding to sending 
unsolicitied advertisement (if that is what it is), look at which
mail server was used to send this email and complain.

What they appear to have done is look at who is announcing what ip block
and in that case it is 203.119.20.0/24. BGP table is free for use for
whatever needs, so no violation there. But they do appear to have looked
in apnic whois to find contact person afterwards. APNIC whois has what
they call "copyright terms" at http://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html
which says:
  "...Any use of this material to target advertising or similar activities 
are explicitly forbidden and will be prosecuted. APNIC requests to be 
notified of any such activities or suspicions thereof".
  As far as I know the address for complaints like this at APNIC is
helpdesk at apnic.net

Unfortunetly if they sent the same adveritsement to somebody who has ip
block in ARIN whois, they would not be violating any policy because ARIN
does not have terms of use for their WHOIS despite me trying to introduce
it several years back...

-- 
William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william at elan.net