Klik-Klak-Blox (Was: [CrackMonkey] ?Who is Siteamerica...)

[George J.P. Perry]

I took the MX (?internet peacekeepers) issue to <register.com> &
<lyingscumbags.org>'s isp.  

R agreed to list smtp-machines named "mail.lyingscumbags.org" &
"mail.lyingscumbags.net"; but balked at listing their ip as
<63.92.23.192>, saying that it was up to our isp... 

... which isp told us that R was, ummm... ill-informed.  

Call back to R, and discover that some one there -- better-informed --
had completed the link between calls.  

All this at thirteen hundred hours Friday.  

Twelve hours passed, coming up on twenty-four (R said call if we're not
getting mail in 24h), with new "failure" reports to this effect:  

<<< 550 5.0.0 open relay 209.249.67.191;see:http://www.orbs.org
554 <tech at lyingscumbags.org>... Service unavailable...

... we're the complement of an emaillish roach-motel:  mail goes out,
but doesn't get in.  

With thanks for the pointers, and firm resolve to be "somewhere" in the
Bay Area this Thursday, next... 

-g... white-cane pedestrian on the information superhighway

p.s... apart from the missle-reference, MX gives me some pause... as El
Jeffe, here, observed:  "Damned ping works, traceroute works; everything 
finds us, except the mail"... we see a fore-shadow of the mark of the
beast

On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Monkey Master wrote:

}Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 19:30:08 -0700
}From: Monkey Master <monkeymaster at crackmonkey.org>
}To: Everybody's got something to hide 'cept for me & my <crackmonkey at zork.net>
}Subject: Re: [CrackMonkey] ?Who is Siteamerica,
     and ?why is he saying those terrible things about me... (Was: Returned
    mail: User unknown (fwd)
}
}begin  George J.P. Perry quotation:
}> <3.1> (?who are these guys, be dissmissin' us)
}> 
}>    Domain Name: SITEAMERICA.COM
}>    Registrar: REGISTER.COM, INC.
}> 
}> </3.1> (!hey, look...)
}
}	They're the highest-order mail exchange for lyingscumbags.org:
}
}
}; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> mx lyingscumbags.org 
};; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
};; got answer:
};; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4
};; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
};; QUERY SECTION:
};;	lyingscumbags.org, type = MX, class = IN
}
};; ANSWER SECTION:
}lyingscumbags.org.	59m10s IN MX	20 relay1.exodus.net.
}lyingscumbags.org.	59m10s IN MX	20 relay2.exodus.net.
}lyingscumbags.org.	59m10s IN MX	10 mail2.siteamerica.com.
}
};; AUTHORITY SECTION:
}lyingscumbags.org.	1d23h58m54s IN NS  DNS3.REGISTER.com.
}lyingscumbags.org.	1d23h58m54s IN NS  DNS4.REGISTER.com.
}
};; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
}DNS3.REGISTER.com.	7h8m42s IN A	209.67.50.253
}DNS4.REGISTER.com.	7h8m42s IN A	209.67.50.254
}
};; Total query time: 1 msec
};; FROM: zork to SERVER: default -- 127.0.0.1
};; WHEN: Thu Aug 31 19:29:19 2000
};; MSG SIZE  sent: 35  rcvd: 207
}
}	Perhaps if you update your nameservice so that the MX points
}to the actual machine, you might have an answer.  It seems, however,
}that register.com is serving as your nameservers.  Perhaps you'd like
}to move nameservice to a box you have more control over.
}
}
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