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To: Mark D Smith <msmith@revolution.3-cities.com>
From: "Tim Oneil" <toneil@visigenic.com>
Subject: Re: spam/nslookup question
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At 09:38 PM 5/21/97 -0700, you wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>I'm currently being spammed from a site that doesn't aparently have a
>DNS entry.  This site [205.199.212.21] reports that it's name is
>relay2.ispam.net.  Looking up ispam.net I get that it's run by 
>the *ssh*les known as cyberpromo.  
>
>Question is, how can they get away with not having a DNS entry but
>still using an IP address?

A traceroute from my box out to that ip is no problem. Here; from
my company's gateway out to that ip:

Hop  1           10 ms     206.64.15.1  rout15.visigenic.com
Hop  2           10 ms   204.179.98.14  odbc-rt.visigenic.com
Hop  3           10 ms    204.179.98.1  visigenic-gw.visigenic.com
Hop  4           20 ms     137.39.2.71  Loopback0.GW1.SCL1.Alter.Net
Hop  5           20 ms     137.39.19.9  Fddi0-0.GW2.SCL1.Alter.Net
Hop  6           20 ms  206.84.225.233  f6-0.santaclara3.agis.net
Hop  7           20 ms  206.84.226.233  ga000.santaclara4.agis.net
Hop  8          110 ms  206.84.228.229  ga02b.washington4.agis.net
Hop  9          100 ms  206.84.225.249  a0.781.pittsburgh1.agis.net
Hop 10          110 ms 206.185.158.237  a0.1.philadelphia1.agis.net
Hop 11          171 ms   206.185.158.2  cyberpromo.philadelphia1.agis.net
Hop 12          180 ms  205.199.212.21  205.199.212.21

-Tim