Re: verio.net

From: Eirik Seim (eirik_at_mi.uib.no)
Date: 07/10/03 

Date: 10 Jul 2003 01:02:05 GMT

On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 16:01:11 -0700, dboring@ispwest.com wrote:
> By chance I found this site:
> http://www.robtex.com/netexp/as701
> that allows you to trace IPs.

It allows you to see information about who owns the netblock, or more
acurately, information about the different ASs.

Reading up on how BGP and Internet routing works might help.

The first paragraph of the 'Introduction' part here, will possibly clarify
things: http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ito_doc/bgp.htm

> By putting in the higher range # for verio.net
> (somebody that's been scanning me for open ports)
> I found this page:
> http://www.robtex.com/netexp/as2914
> Since all the apparent clients of this page are
> government agencies, including an number in
> Virginia, I am wondering... Whatz Up With This Sh*t?

I'm not sure I see the same as you. What I see is information about
the ISP Verio's (http://www.verio.net/) peering ASs, I guess.

> Am I too paranoid here or what? Is this part of the
> War on Terrorism?

I think you're beeing way too paranoid. If we're talking about the same
listing of ASs, you're making a list of 160 entries, of which the only
ones I immediately noticed to seem connected with US government is NASA
and some defense research networks, and that in fact seems somewhat
dominated by european ISPs, into 'all government agencies', and even
Virginia (where did that come from?).

Even I consider myself paranoid, but this is really a harmless listing.
If you're beeing scanned from IP addresses that belong to Verio,
abuse@verio.net is the only address you need :)

- Eirik 

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