On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 02:47:00AM -0400, Pete wrote:
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Dennis Dayman wrote:
ARIN has dropped all registry information for 206.46.0.0 - 255.255.0.0. This range includes our residential and business mail customers. We are aware of the issue and are addressing this NOW to have our ARIN records re-published again. We are not sure why this has happened at this time. Any sender verification that checks for PTR records will fail on outbound mail from Verizon Online. -------------------------- Dennis Dayman Verizon Internet Services Operations Security and Legal Compliance --------------------------
ARIN is cracking down on IP Space that is or has been issued (legally) and have been found to have the contact records "out of date" or the e-mail addresses either don't work or their are mailboxes full and so on. You will see more and more of these allocations being removed for failing to act on network issue via their stated ARIN information.
I received endless spam from hosts on other verizon networks, e.g. (the following generated: Tue Jun 8 05:01:33 EDT 2004): NetRange: 206.124.64.0 - 206.124.64.255 CIDR: 206.124.64.0/24 NetName: GTENET-CSD-DNS1 NetHandle: NET-206-124-64-0-2 Parent: NET-206-124-64-0-1 NetType: Reassigned NameServer: BIGGUY.GTE.NET NameServer: OTHERGUY.GTE.NET Comment: RegDate: 1999-02-24 Updated: 1999-02-24 OrgAbuseHandle: VOH1-ARIN OrgAbuseName: Hostmaster, Verizon Online OrgAbusePhone: +1-800-927-3000 OrgAbuseEmail: hostmaster@bizmailsrvcs.net E-mail sent to this listed contact bounced and/or was undeliverable. I sent notifications of this breakage to every other directly related and listed contact, and was met with complete silence. I tried dozens of times. For months and months. One of the non-responders was a contact associated with GTE.NET, christian.andersen@verizon.com, AKA CA546-ARIN, for example. I also inquired of ARIN about its policy regarding Invalid Contacts. They merely pointed out that it is not their responsibility to police such issues, but merely mark them, i.e. (the following generated: Tue Jun 8 05:02:55 EDT 2004): Name: Hostmaster, Verizon Online Handle: VOH1-ARIN Company: Address: Verizon Online Address: 5525 MacArthur Ste 320 City: Irving StateProv: TX PostalCode: 75038 Country: US Comment: The information for POC handle VOH1-ARIN has been reported to Comment: be invalid. ARIN has attempted to obtain updated data, but has Comment: been unsuccessful. To provide current contact information, Comment: please e-mail hostmaster@arin.net. RegDate: 2002-02-21 Updated: 2003-06-03 Phone: +1-800-927-3000 (Office) Email: hostmaster@bizmailsrvcs.net The coincidence that the last-updated date is "06/03/2003" is remarkable. -- Henry Yen Aegis Information Systems, Inc. Senior Systems Programmer Hicksville, New York