Subject: Copyright theft by parishioners.org! http://scientologysucks.lron.com
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In article <aTBG3MdlgwSY092yn@islandnet.com>, martinh@islandnet.com says...
>
>Interesting. So, who's their upstream provider? I suppose I will
[snip]
>webmaster@parishioners.org.
Ok, so first nslookup to find the mail host for them.
$ nslookup
> set type=mx
> server ns1.relaypoint.net
> ls -d relaypoint.net
Cool, they only have a single MX host. So much for reliable mail delivery.
However, mx.relaypoint.net is a CNAME in direct violation of RFC 974 as
explained in RFC 1912. It appears that relaypoint is using that really
cool Hubbardspew as a replacement for reading the RFCs.
Now, we find out where that webmaster address really lives.
$ telnet mx.relaypoint.net 25
And while we are poking around, sendmail 8.6 is a bit old, are they an
open relay? Note that mx.relaypoint.net is a CNAME for mail.relaypoint.net,
and that has two A records, 206.170.248.99 and 206.170.248.252.
http://www.orbs.org says:
Database Check - 206.170.248.99
This server is included in the ORBS automated database because it's
delivering relay test messages back to ORBS which were injected by the
ORBS tester to the following address(es):
206.170.248.99
.... entry last updated 1999-04-15 12:22:04 UTC (yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss)
Database Check - 206.170.248.252
This server is included in the ORBS automated database because it's
delivering relay test messages back to ORBS which were injected by the
ORBS tester to the following address(es):
206.170.248.252
.... entry last updated 1999-03-31 20:47:10 UTC (yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss)
Cool, so not only don't relaypoint.net know how to setup their DNS, they
also don't know how to configure a mail server. Why am I not surprised?
Traceroute from here goes thru:
[206.170.248.218]
Well, the router that is the immediate upstream of relaypoint does not
have reverse dns configured, so we ask whois.arin.net about it and get:
SAVVIS Communications (NETBLK-SAVVIS6)
Netname: SAVVIS6
Coordinator:
Domain System inverse mapping provided by:
NS1.SAVVIS.NET 209.16.211.42
It looks like Savvis provides connectivity to relaypoint.net.
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From: carl@five-ten-sg.com (Carl Byington)
Date: 18 Apr 1999 00:25:20 GMT
>have to complain to the ISP's provider about their copyright theft
>of my works. This is what they wrote back to me today:
> parishioners.org
parishioners.org MX preference = 20, mail exchanger = mx.relaypoint.net
> ls -d parishioners.org
[ns1.relaypoint.net]
parishioners.org. SOA ns1.relaypoint.net root.relaypoint.net.
(1999032201 3600 900 604800 86400)
parishioners.ORG. NS ns1.relaypoint.net
parishioners.ORG. NS ns2.relaypoint.net
parishioners.ORG. A 207.213.105.38
parishioners.ORG. MX 20 mx.relaypoint.net
www A 207.213.105.38
parishioners.org. SOA ns1.relaypoint.net root.relaypoint.net.
(1999032201 3600 900 604800 86400)
[ns1.relaypoint.net]
relaypoint.net. SOA ns1.relaypoint.net root.relaypoint.net.
(1999041701 3600 900 604800 900)
relaypoint.NET. NS ns1.relaypoint.net
relaypoint.NET. NS ns2.relaypoint.net
relaypoint.NET. A 206.16.234.253
relaypoint.NET. MX 20 mx.relaypoint.net
mx CNAME mail.relaypoint.net
mail MX 20 mail.relaypoint.net
mail A 206.170.248.252
[snip]
relaypoint.net. SOA ns1.relaypoint.net root.relaypoint.net.
(1999041701 3600 900 604800 900)
Trying 206.170.248.99...
Connected to mail.relaypoint.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
220-mail2.relaypoint.net Sendmail 8.6.11/8.6.12 ready at Sat, 17 Apr 1999
16:48:
09 -0700
220 ESMTP spoken here
HELO mail3.five-ten-sg.com
250 mail2.relaypoint.net Hello [205.147.40.50], pleased to meet you
VRFY webmaster@parishioners.org
250 <spc@mail2.relaypoint.net>
208.9.65.20
208.9.65.2
4 16 ms 16 ms 16 ms savvis-above-45Mbps.lax.above.net
[209.133.31.170]
5 16 ms 31 ms 16 ms 209.223.191.30
6 47 ms 47 ms 47 ms gw-alhambra.relaypoint.net
[206.170.251.254]
7 47 ms 47 ms 46 ms gw4-losangeles.relaypoint.net
8 31 ms 31 ms 31 ms www.parishioners.org [207.213.105.38]
7777 Bonhomme #1500
St. Louis, MO 63105
Netblock: 209.223.0.0 - 209.223.255.255
Maintainer: SAVV
Cordova, Robert B (RBC36-ARIN) robertc@SAVVIS.COM
(314)719-2419 (FAX) (314)719-2442
NS2.SAVVIS.NET 204.194.10.206
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