Re: Dumb ISP of the week

[John Pettitt <jpp () CLOUDVIEW COM>]

1 pbi-dsl-gw.cloudview.com (216.103.77.153) 12.205 ms 8.970 ms 16.412 ms
2 core3-g2-0.snfc21.pbi.net (206.171.134.130) 7.230 ms 8.049 ms 7.310 ms
3 rback2-fe2-0.snfc21.pbi.net (206.171.134.133) 16.084 ms 14.359 ms 16.580 ms
4 adsl-209-233-27-39.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (209.233.27.39) 23.798 ms
24.212 ms 22.752 ms

looks like pac bell to me - why do you say it's savis?

At 06:56 PM 08/22/2000, Wozz wrote:
> I'm curious why you even sent this to Pac Bell.  If I understand
> correctly, you
> are a Pac Bell customer, and the person attacking you is on SAVVIS.  This is
> probably a form letter to let you know that you should be contacting SAVVIS.
> Other than a poorly designed form letter, I'm not sure whats so dumb about
> this.
>
> As an abuse@ reader I'm curious as to people's motivation behind letting their
> own ISP's know about attacks originating from remote ISP's.  ISP abuse teams
> barely have enough time to police their own users, why would you think
> they would
> have time to police other ISP's users?
>
> Did you even send a copy of this complaint to SAVVIS?
>
> Don't get me wrong, this email is not meant to imply that SBC is not full of
> idiots, I'm just curious abotu this particular incident.
>
> On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 11:14:20AM -0700, John Pettitt wrote:
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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> > This weeks prize goes to Shawna at  PacBell (aka SBC) - see below
> >
> > >Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 04:21:38 -0700 (PDT)
> > >From: support_replies () pacbell net
> > >Subject: Re : Security issue
> > >To: jpp () cloudview com
> > >
> > >
> > >Hello User jpp () cloudview com,
> > >I have received your email regarding your security issue.
> > >E-mail the postmaster from where the e-mail came. For instance,
> > >if the mail came from userID () someisp net, forward it and a complaint
> > >to postmaster () someisp net. This should resolve your issue.
> > >Thank you for choosing SBC Internet Services.
> > >Regards,
> > >Shawna
> > >Technical Analyst
> > >SBC Internet Services
> > >Try our online help at http://support.pacbell.net
> > >Remember its quick, hassle free, and is always available!
> > >~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
> > >You Wrote :
> > >We detected the following security related activity from your network.
> > > >To: root () cloudview com
> > > >Subject: gatekeeper 08/19/00:04.59 system check
> > > >Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 04:59:02 -0700 (PDT)
> > > >From: root () cloudview com (Superuser)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >Security Violations
> > > >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> > > >Aug 19 04:13:08 gatekeeper snort[5740]: IDS277 - NAMED Iquery Probe:
> > > >209.233.27.39:2482 -> 216.103.77.155:53
> > > >Aug 19 04:13:08 gatekeeper snort[5740]: MISC-DNS-version-query:
> > > >209.233.27.39:2482 -> 216.103.77.155:53
> >
> >
> > Arrrgggghhh,
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > John Pettitt                                     Email: jpp () cloudview com
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John Pettitt                                     Email: jpp () cloudview com

"Attention spam" - The length of time it takes you to realize an email
isn't worth reading.

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Fingerprint: 81B5 446D 3E0E 1CDE 5A45  644A A744 54C4 7886 3658