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[Gregory D Hough]

Gregory D Hough wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> As I'm training my firewall to flag abusive hosts and automatically 
> fire-off incident reports, I came across a perplexing situation. A 
> particular host has no reverse name although it appears to be from an 
> ISP out of Michigan. The abuse AT address is for IANA itself. Isn't this 
> unusual?
> 
> I'm not comfortable with my set-up emailing an incident report directly 
> to IANA because I feel block owners should police their own hosts. This 
> really throws a wrench in the works. Any thoughts?
> 
> Thanks,
> greg
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OK fine, after poking around the ISP's web pages I found the appropriate 
address to direct incident reports to. I am amazed at how many ISP's 
have such poorly structured and outdated whois records including my own.

Little, if anything should be said about such lame admins.

Can't you tell?

greg
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