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RE: Comcast.net abuse contact?
From: Misechok Mike J <misechok.mj () mellon com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 13:04:03 -0500
OK Brian, here's the best I could do...... Running www.comcast.net through Netcraft's website finder, you can get at least two IP addresses (66.45.25.22 and 66.45.79.133), which resolve through ARIN to Inflow (and then to Comcast Corporation). The contact info listed there is Joe Inflow (hostmaster () inflow com), with a phone number of 303-942-2800. This record was just updated on January 3, 2002, so hopefully the info will be good. Also, putting www.comcast.com through the website finder, you can get an IP address of 38.144.10.98, which resolves through ARIN to Performance Systems International in Herndon, VA. The contact e-mail address there is hostinfo () psi com, you could try e-mailing that address and see if they pass your concerns on to Comcast, or even give you a contact name/number/e-mail address. They also have a phone number listed, 518-283-8860. This record was last updated in November of 1998, so the phone number may not be of much help. I couldn't find an abuse e-mail account, but here's a link for customer support I was able to drill down to at comcast.com (http://www.comcastonline.com/contactus.asp ) and one at comcast.net (http://www.comcast.net/contactus/ ). Perhaps you could send an e-mail via either of these webpages and they might respond to you? Any of this info may or may not be of help, but at least it's a starting point. Good luck!!! 8-) No trees were harmed in sending this communication. However, a few electrons WERE temporarily inconvenienced.
-----Original Message----- From: root () physiometrics net [SMTP:root () physiometrics net] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 9:20 AM To: incidents () securityfocus com Subject: Comcast.net abuse contact? Hello, Does anyone out there have a valid abuse reporting contact for the comcast.net domain? Comcast is a cable internet provider who owns both the comcast.com and comcast.net domains. Their customers often appear in my firewall logs attempting massive port scans, probes for trojans... your usual "script kiddie on a broadband connection" type of stuff. Their Web sites feature mostly inane drivel and marketing promotions, providing nothing useful in the way of company contact details. I sent reports of their users abusing my firewall only to have emails to abuse () comcast net and abuse () comcast com bounce back to me. Anyone have the valid abuse email? Perhaps a phone number? (Am i alone in wishing that there could be SEVERE legal - or preferably physical - penalties for anyone found operating a domain WITHOUT valid postmaster and abuse email boxes? I'd personally volunteer to my resources to dispatch test emails to domains at random for those two addresses, demanding a response. If one didn't arrive in a certain amount of time, then oversight bodies would be called in to levy fines, public floggings, etc. ah well, a man can dream.) Brian Rea Senior Network Engineer PhysioMetrics -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
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