I assume the ongoing problems that forum administrators have with people
randomly signing up to forums - even closed ones requiring admin approval
for all accounts - for the purpose of spamming their web urls around the
place is an old one.
I run such a forum and have started implementing /16 level bans to try to
slow them down. Obviously not the best solution.
The forum in question is phpBB (I know - whos isn't) and i'm yet to have
time to actually start digging into whether there are better ways of
responding to this issue. (Volume isnt prohibitive - yet.)
In the most recent case the IP address space that the website concerned
points back to is in the Ukraine and the listed abuse contact is on a
domain which is canned due to invalid contact details provided.
My question then is - what happens now? The IP address space is
essentially 'untraceable' except perhaps through
bandwidth-supplier-agreements or somesuch. Shouldn't IP's with similarly
invalid contact details be 'suspended' after being given opportunity to
provide updated, correct details?
The IP range in question is 195.225.176.0 - 195.225.179.255 and a snippet
of the whois info provided is as follows:
remarks: ****************************************
remarks: * Abuse contacts: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *
remarks: ****************************************
person: Vsevolod Stetsinsky
address: 01110, Ukraine, Kiev, 20Á, Solomenskaya street. room 206.
phone: +38 050 6226676
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nic-hdl: VS1142-RIPE
source: RIPE # Filtered
Forgive the relative noobishness of the question, but I've not had to deal
with this sort of situation before. Should I be forwarding to RIPE?
