whois Re: [Techtalk] Who to complain to?

[David Sumbler]

On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Mandi wrote:

>> When I do a "whois" on the offending IP, all I get is:
>> 
>>   [Querying whois.arin.net]
>>   [whois.arin.net]
>>   Pac Bell Internet Services PBI-NET-7 (NET-63-192-0-0-1)
>>                                     63.192.0.0 - 63.207.255.255
>>   County of Santa Cruz SBCIS990913-81 (NET-63-194-190-0-1)
>>                                     63.194.190.0 - 63.194.190.255
>> 
>>   # ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2004-11-02 19:10
>>   # Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database.
>> 
>> How do I find out more, and, specifically, who to complain to about
>> this antisocial behaviour?  Incidentally, I'm not clear how to follow
>> the advice on the last line of the above.
>> 
>
> David --
>
> You can do a whois on the netname of the second listing there,
> $ whois NET-63-194-190-0-1 at whois.arin.net
>
> to get a look at the listing for that particular network.  Essentially, 
> County of Santa Cruz is a customer of Pac Bell and has been assigned that 
> network by Pac Bell.
>
> You can also do arin searches online at http://www.arin.net/ and they 
> hyperlink the netnames across the listings, which is more intuitive.
>
> In this particular case, it looks like County of Santa Cruz lists a pacbell 
> contact for abuse, and that is who you would want to report your issue to. 
> They probably have an office machine with a virus or trojan on it.
>
> HTH

It certainly did!  Thanks very much for your help.

David

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