On Mon, 30 Mar 1998 14:24:22 +0100, Richard Travett
<Richard(_dot_)Travett(_at_)CAMBRIDGE(_dot_)SIMOCO(_dot_)COM> wrote:
I've had 2 spams originating from md2.vsnl.net.in by the look of
things, (but I'm not sure - The first valid Received header looks as
if it just hasn't stamped a 'from' part at all - Are they using an
old sendmail?). However, I tried Sam Spade for WHOIS info. It
Yeah, they should be blocked until they demonstrate that they
demonstrate that they have figured out they have a problem.
points me at a web site 'http://www.iisc.ernet.in/' which turns
out to be 'Indian Institute Of Science'!!! Connection is very
Does it give you better results than just contacting APnic?
$ host md2.vsnl.net.in
md2.vsnl.net.in has address 202.54.6.20
md2.vsnl.net.in mail is handled by mmds.pppmad.vsnl.net.in
md2.vsnl.net.in mail is handled by md2.vsnl.net.in
$ whois -h whois.apnic.net 202.54.6
inetnum: 202.54.6.0 - 202.54.6.255
netname: VSNL-MAD
descr: VSNL Madras
country: IN
admin-c: AK1-IN
tech-c: NS1-IN
changed: neeraj(_at_)giasbm01(_dot_)vsnl(_dot_)net(_dot_)in 970304
source: APNIC
person: Amitabh Kumar
address: VSNL, MG ROAD , FORT MUMBAI
country: IN
phone: +91 22 2624020
fax-no: +91 22 2624070
e-mail: amitabh(_at_)giasbm01(_dot_)vsnl(_dot_)net(_dot_)in
nic-hdl: AK1-IN
changed: yoshiko(_at_)apnic(_dot_)net 980319
source: APNIC
person: NEERAJ SONKER
address: VIDESH SANCHAR NIGAM LTD.
address: VIDESH SANCHAR BHAWAN, M.G.ROAD, FORT, BOMBAY 400 001
phone: +91 22 2624020 ext 2167
fax-no: +91 22 2624070
e-mail: neeraj(_at_)giasbm01(_dot_)vsnl(_dot_)net(_dot_)in
nic-hdl: NS1-IN
notify: neeraj(_at_)giasbm01(_dot_)vsnl(_dot_)net(_dot_)in
changed: neeraj(_at_)giasbm01(_dot_)vsnl(_dot_)net(_dot_)in 951117
source: APNIC
Good luck, they're clueless. Mailed both contacts when I got spam
relayed over one of their servers a couple of weeks ago. A week before
that, somebody else on Spam-L had gotten relay-spam via them.
Some time ago, I corresponded with someone on a completely different
matter, namely invalid Message-Id:s, who also had a rather low opinion
on VSNL based on their (non-) responsiveness to his complaints about
their broken software.
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