Teksavvy users?

[Jamon Camisso]

Tyler Aviss wrote:
> I sent them this tidbit from ARIN, and it looks like they're going to
> be fixing it up to have their contact info now.
> 
> ----
> 
> 4.2.3.7.6. Residential Customer Privacy
> 
> To maintain the privacy of their residential customers, an
> organization with downstream residential customers may substitute that
> organization's name for the customer's name, e.g. 'Private Customer -
> XYZ Network', and the customer's street address may read 'Private
> Residence'. Each private downstream residential reassignment must have
> accurate upstream Abuse and Technical POCs visible on the WHOIS record
> for that block.
> 
> ----
> 
> If my co-worker hadn't been done a WHOIS against an "odd IP" in our
> SSH logs (IP happened to be mine), I probably wouldn't have noticed
> this myself. Anyone else with a reserved netblock might want to make
> sure their personal info isn't in the rwhois (just "WHOIS" your IP in
> 'nix), unless of course you like junkmail and/or possible visits from
> odd internet denizens :-)

Nice catch regardless. I have a single static IP with rdns set, so I
guess they only publish those records if you have a netblock (of any size).

Jamon
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