Re: Spam impersonating me (was Re: Spam: the last straw)
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 03:39:30PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 05:23:08PM -0500, Nathan E Norman (nnorman@micromuse.com) wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 03:17:23PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > > > Cool, didn't know 'whois' took IPs... nslookup wasn't very useful on
> > > > that IP address.
> > >
> > > Right. If whois doesn't return a result, traceroute (or its
> > > replacements, which I'm less familiar with) may be useful. As these
> > > traverse the network connection, the process is slower.
> >
> > whois will always return a result; you just have to know how to ask.
>
> Not strictly true. I've had requests time out, or in certain instances,
> be refused (alegedly for overuse from a specific IP or netblock, which I
> find implausible).
At one point, I tried a whois on a particular address and recieved a reserved reply from the whois server. Using the web interface on ARIN's site whoever, I got multiple records, 1 saying reserved and the other saying National Guard, Pentagon...
>
> Peace.
>
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