----- Original Message Follows ----- From: paul@vix.com To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: who's receiving comvalid/bgpsentinel spam? (Re: BGP ) Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 14:04:16 +0000

is anybody else receiving this spam when they advertise a new AS nowadays? (i'm trying to figure out which whois information is being policy-violated and who to complain about, but if i'm the only one receiving it, i may JHD.)

I got one also. AS36149 scott

re:

# From: "Antony Gullusci" <gullusci@comvalid.com> # To: <paul_vixie@isc.org> # Subject: BGP # Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 14:09:19 +0100 # X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 # # Hi! I am Antony Gullusci from Comvalid, and I'd like to give you some # additional information on Comvalid and what we can do for you, regarding # BGP. # # In the past 10 years, our mother company Inrete has made a good name # managing Autonomous System and BGP routers. # # Now Comvalid offers to the broader market the precious internal tools that # Inrete developed in order to manage the Autonomous System of its clients. # # Since you manage a newly announced AS, we propose you free of charge, the # use of our BGPsentinel service for one month. # BGPsentinel operates in the following way: # # 1) constantly sniffs in different points the BGP traffic between BGP router # receiving the full Internet mesh # 2) extracts and stores all the data regarding the AS numbers and NETs of # interest, and stores such data in a database # 3) generates intelligent and context rich alarms, on the base of the # detected and stored info # 4) makes all the history pertaining the collected data always available for # post-debug and forensic # # You will have a user & password to access the data regarding you systems, # and will be able to define specific alarms to be sent to you by mail, after # one month the only thing we will ask you is to fill a short survey about the # service with your opinion and your advices. # # If you are interest in having a better control on what happens to your NETs # and ASes, just reply me back confirming that you are interested in having # the following AS and NET's : 24051 # 203.119.20.0/24 # # Checked by BGPsentinel # # Looking forward to hear from you! # # Antony Gullusci # Email gullusci@comvalid.com # # BGPsentinel Web http://www.comvalid.com/?pag=bs # __________________________________________ # Comvalid USA # 35 Corporate Drive # Burlington, Massachusetts 01803 # Tel +1 (781) 583-7565 # http://www.comvalid.com #