Re: Dealing with abuse complaints to non-existent contacts

[Franck Martin <fmartin () linkedin com>]

On Aug 10, 2014, at 8:19 AM, Gabriel Marais <gabriel.j.marais () gmail com> wrote:

> Hi Nanog
>
> I'm curious.
>
> I have been receiving some major ssh brute-force attacks coming from random
> hosts in the 116.8.0.0 - 116.11.255.255 network. I have sent a complaint to
> the e-mail addresses obtained from a whois query on one of the IP Addresses.
>
> My e-mail bounced back from both recipients. Once being rejected by filter
> and the other because the e-mail address doesn't exist. I would have
> thought that contact details are rather important to be up to date, or not?
>
> Besides just blocking the IP range on my firewall, I was wondering what
> others would do in this case?

$ host -t txt 0.0.8.116.abuse-contacts.abusix.org
0.0.8.116.abuse-contacts.abusix.org descriptive text "18977164171 () 189 cn"

However, I don’t see an mnt-irt: field which is mandatory for APNIC records updated/created after 2010 (unfortunately 
this object was last updated in 2007). So I would start by pointing to APNIC that no such entry exist and as this 
network is of importance for the community, the addition of an abuse/IRT POC would be beneficial for everyone and if 
they could help, this would be greatly appreciated.

https://www.apnic.net/services/manage-resources/abuse-contacts

But that’s the theory...

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