Comment spammers chewing blogger bandwidth like crazy

Sat Jan 13 22:24:21 UTC 2007

Hi Owen,

  What makes you think that the registration is fake?

  Just curious. :-)

Pierre.

On 1/13/07, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
> 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:
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> >
> >
> >> 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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> > Gregory Hicks                           | Principal Systems Engineer
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> >
> > I am perfectly capable of learning from my mistakes.  I will surely
> > learn a great deal today.
> >
> > "A democracy is a sheep and two wolves deciding on what to have for
> > lunch.  Freedom is a well armed sheep contesting the results of the
> > decision." - Benjamin Franklin
> >
> > "The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they
> > be properly armed." --Alexander Hamilton
> >
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