Comment spammers chewing blogger bandwidth like crazy

Sat Jan 13 20:32:17 UTC 2007

Surprise, a spammer is operating from IPs with fake registration data.
I'm shocked... NOT!

Owen

On Jan 13, 2007, at 11:53 AM, Gregory Hicks wrote:

>
>
>> Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 18:58:02 +0000 (GMT)
>> From: "Chris L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow at verizonbusiness.com>
>> Subject: Re: Comment spammers chewing blogger bandwidth like crazy
>> To: Thomas Leavitt <thomas at thomasleavitt.org>
>> Cc: nanog <nanog at merit.edu>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Thomas Leavitt wrote:
>>
>>> Why has 195.225.177.46, an IP in Ukraine, been eating a tremendous
>>> amount of bandwidth? What are they doing?
>>
>> this isn't in the ukraine, it's in NYC behind ISPrime. Phil is fairly
>> hhelpful, you might ask them to 'figure out what the heck is going  
>> on'
>> with that ip :)
>>
>> -Chris
>> (unless the ukraine got a whole lot closer to IAD than I thought:
>> 64 bytes from 195.225.177.46: icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=13.1 ms
>> 64 bytes from 195.225.177.46: icmp_seq=2 ttl=55 time=24.5 ms
>
> Um-m-m-m...
>
> % Information related to '195.225.176.0 - 195.225.179.255'
>
> inetnum:        195.225.176.0 - 195.225.179.255
> netname:        NETCATHOST
> descr:          NetcatHosting
> country:        UA
> admin-c:        VS1142-RIPE
> tech-c:         VS1142-RIPE
> status:         ASSIGNED PI
> mnt-by:         RIPE-NCC-HM-PI-MNT
> mnt-lower:      RIPE-NCC-HM-PI-MNT
> mnt-by:         NETCATHOST-MNT
> mnt-routes:     NETCATHOST-MNT
> notify:         vs at netcathost.com
> changed:        hostmaster at ripe.net 20040304
> source:         RIPE
> remarks:        ***************************************
> remarks:        * Abuse contacts: abuse at netcathost.com *
> remarks:        ***************************************
>
> person:       Vsevolod Stetsinsky
> address:      01110, Ukraine, Kiev, 20Á, Solomenskaya street. room  
> 206.
> phone:        +38 050 6226676
> e-mail:       vs at netcathost.com
> nic-hdl:      VS1142-RIPE
> changed:      vs at netcathost.com 20040303
> source:       RIPE
>
>> )
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> learn a great deal today.
>
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>
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