On 26/07/2012 2:01 AM, Denis Walker wrote:
Dear Arnold
From the RIPE NCC website you can find an Abuse Finder tool http://apps.db.ripe.net/search/abuse-finder.html Thank you, Denis
I believe someone had pointed me to this URL before, but because I never used it, I had forgotten about it. As you have had other comments in the mean time regarding this URL, I won't belabor the point too much, When I, or anyone else, gets SPAM, all we have to go on is the IP address and the lookup URL does not even accept IP addresses, so it is not very useful for this purpose. It may be useful for whatever the facility was built for, but it is not for my purposes :-( I have used the RIPE DB look-up URL with some success, but it is tedious and requires a lot of manual intervention and searching and following trails. From my perspective, the simplest way would be to simply put the abuse address in the place the Whois record provides, or possibly (and preferably for me) in the IANA database or else provide a service similar to Whois, for abuse only, with registration if absolutely necessary.
This is a first iteration of a user tool to help with finding abuse contact information in the RIPE Database. It tries to find the abuse contact(s) for an Internet resource on a 'best effort' basis. If it is a tool under development, I would not mind giving some feedback to the developers. From waht I see and what others have also commented on, it does not look like it was developed with this purpose in mind.
Arnold -- Fight Spam - report it with wxSR http://www.columbinehoney.net/wxSR.shtml