In the good old days, ISPA used to have a table with the IP allocations for JINX peers on their website. Now you can use this script: #!/bin/bash # Simeon Miteff, Tue Aug 21 09:46:59 SAST 2012 # simeon@localloop.co.za function getptrv4 { for i in {1..255}; do PTR=`dnsname $1.$i`; [ -n "$PTR" ] && [...]
Also tagged bash, CINX, JINXShortly after my post revealing that RSAWeb (among others) provide hosting for known South African spammers, I got an email from their Technical Director, Mark Slingsby, asking how recent my lookups were1, and requesting me to name the offenders2 so that his sysadmin team can follow up. I replied with a detailed response, noting that [...]
Also tagged fail, RSAWeb, spammersThis morning I read this article on MyBroadband about the ISPA “hall of shame” list of South African spammers, and conducted a quick (somewhat non-scientific) investigation to see where the mail servers for the domains provided on the ISPA list are hosted. After filtering out domains without MX records, MX records without valid A records, [...]
Also tagged hosting, spammersAccording to the Broadband Infraco act, the new state-owned-enterprise is supposed to be issued both IECS and IECNS licenses (what I like to call the happy-meal license combo), enabling them to provide retail and wholesale services, respectively. The act mandates Infraco to drastically lower the price of national backbone bandwidth. It seems I was overly [...]
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