Verizon email problems

[Chris Brenton]

On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 22:41, Joshua S. Freeman wrote:
>
> Thanks for pointing to this Chris,

Glad to!

> I'm concerned all over again now because I failed this one:
> 
> Reverse DNS entries for MX records
> 
> The problem MX records are:
> 4.38.232.199.in-addr.arpa [No reverse DNS entry (rcode: 3 ancount: 1)]


OK, normally you can figure out who needs to fix this problem with
whois. But...:

[cbrenton at valhalla cbrenton]$ whois -h whois.arin.net 199.232.38.4
[Querying whois.arin.net]
[Redirected to rwhois.gnaps.com:4321]
[Querying rwhois.gnaps.com]
[Unable to connect to remote host]

so it might be gnaps.com who needs to add a PTR for your IP, or they
might have delegated your address to someone else. We can't tell because
gnaps.com is broken and has been since at least last night. :(

BTW, this is a great way to figure out who to report abuses to. Let me
pick on one of the people trolling my network for Web servers last
night:

[cbrenton at valhalla cbrenton]$ whois -h whois.arin.net 65.82.220.213
[Querying whois.arin.net]
[whois.arin.net]
 
OrgName:    BellSouth.net Inc.
OrgID:      BELL
Address:    575 Morosgo Drive
City:       Atlanta
StateProv:  GA
PostalCode: 30324
Country:    US
 
NetRange:   65.80.0.0 - 65.83.255.255
CIDR:       65.80.0.0/14
NetName:    BELLSNET-BLK9
NetHandle:  NET-65-80-0-0-1
Parent:     NET-65-0-0-0-0
NetType:    Direct Allocation
NameServer: NS.BELLSOUTH.NET
NameServer: NS.ATL.BELLSOUTH.NET
Comment:
Comment:    For Abuse Issues, email abuse at bellsouth.net. NO ATTACHMENTS.
Include IP
Comment:    address, time/date, message header, and attack logs.
Comment:    For Subpoena Request, email ipoperations at bellsouth.net with
"SUBPOENA" in
Comment:    the subject line. Law Enforcement Agencies ONLY, please.
RegDate:    2000-11-28
Updated:    2003-05-05
 
TechHandle: JG726-ARIN
TechName:   Geurin, Joe
TechPhone:  +1-404-499-5240
TechEmail:  ipoperations at bellsouth.net

Note that sometimes you map get an answer back saying the address space
has been deligated to RIPE or someone else. In that case just query
their whois server:

whois -h whois.ripe.net 1.2.3.4

or similar.

HTH,
C