Certainly, fine folks at Reliance Globalcom Services, Inc. could tell us who is paying them to connect these hijacked blocks to their network, but I rather doubt that they are actually going to come clean and do that.
Ron, I haven't been following this anti-spam stuff much since it went political with ARIN but I do have a few quick questions (relating to US law and spam). 1) Is spamming from within the US criminal activity? What constitutes spam in that case? 2) If you could justify the incoming spam as a DOS, is that criminal activity? Could you justify it as a DOS? 3) Is providing ARIN with bogus information just to get around their processes criminal activity? 4) Is obtaining disused IP space / AS allocations from assigned entity, and not updating ARIN criminal activity? 5) Is advertising Prefixes or AS number assigned to another entity criminal activity? 6) If any of the above could be classed as criminal activity, are Reliance Globalcom (in this case) legally obligated to cut them off?, or just help by switching on a packet capture (new law coming into effect i think??) Cheers Heath