whois Re: [Techtalk] Who to complain to?

[Mandi]

>
> 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

--mandi