Re: Status

[Chris Hewitt <g0pae manordat demon co uk>]

Greg Julius wrote:

> paranoid about this.  I use windows as my desktop, but have outlook 
> disabled and there are no addresses in it (it's just not safe). 

I "think" if you get Outlook to encrypt the address book then you are 
safe, but I've not investigated this.

> DOS box and typing nslookup followed by the IP.  Among the data 
> returned is the name (if any can be found) belonging to the IP. 

nslookup was ported to dos/win but in a current linux use "dig -x 
<ip-address>".

> If that fails, you can use www.arin.net to find out who "owns" the 
> block of addresses you particular IP belongs to.

There is ARIN, RIPE, and (I think) APNIC covering different geographical 
regions (RIPE for Europe), but they seem quite good in redirecting you 
to the right one if the address is not for their region.

>   You can then use that information to report the abuse to the abuse 
> mailbox for the owning domain. 

I used to do all these lookups by hand and then report it, but I'd 
suggest looking at www.spamcop.net which gives an automated web 
interface to doing it all for you.

Regards

Chris