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Re: Comcast.net abuse contact?


From: Chris Wilkes <cwilkes () ladro com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 09:24:05 -0800

On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 09:20:08AM -0500, root () physiometrics net wrote:
Hello,

Does anyone out there have a valid abuse reporting contact for the
comcast.net domain?  Comcast is a cable internet provider who owns both the
comcast.com and comcast.net domains.  Their customers often appear in my
firewall logs attempting massive port scans, probes for trojans... your
usual "script kiddie on a broadband connection" type of stuff.

Their Web sites feature mostly inane drivel and marketing promotions,
providing nothing useful in the way of company contact details.  I sent
reports of their users abusing my firewall only to have emails to
abuse () comcast net and abuse () comcast com bounce back to me.

Anyone have the valid abuse email?  Perhaps a phone number?

You might want to bring it up on http://www.rfc-ignorant.com .  I'm not
sure if they contact the company for you or it is just a listing of
companies that do not have standard email addresses like "abuse" and
such.

Comcast.net was reported on Jan 8th of this year where both the abuse
and postmaster addresses bounced.

On a related note I've been lucky and haven't had a port scan since I
started logging all dropped packets on my firewall.  The only things
that come my way (ISP is Speakeasy in Seattle) is Code Red and Nimda.

Once in a while I get weird stuff where they ask for a remote webserver:

61.170.140.72   [24/Dec/2001:21:06:09 -0800] "GET http://www.s3.com/
200.83.32.13    [26/Dec/2001:20:49:16 -0800] "GET http://www.google.com/
217.168.67.121  [01/Jan/2002:00:50:45 -0800] "GET http://www.s3.com/
218.21.77.29    [03/Jan/2002:20:58:16 -0800] "GET http://www.yahoo.com/
61.142.242.236  [14/Jan/2002:10:09:45 -0800] "GET http://www.spedia.net/

Anyone know what's up with that?

Chris

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