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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: URGENT: Operational Integrity Problem with IQ-INTERNET.COM
What relevance does this have to the NANOG community? rob > > > Reference: Sprint Customer Larry Host > Domain: IQ-INTERNET.COM > Problem Summary: Out of control mail loop > > 1. For the past 48 or so hours all e-mail from the domain > IQ-INTERNET.COM has been blocked from our domain, STD.COM. All such > email is refused with an immediate error message by our (std.com) > server. > > 2. The account [email protected], owner or adminstrator of this > iq-internet.com domain, has been informed of this many times in this > period. Messages have been left on their answering machine. Sprint > personnel attempted to relay this message to him though I do not know > if they were successful. Sprint security personnel have publically and > privately (to me) acknowledged the problem. > > 3. Electronic mail continues to be sent (as of 17:17 EST) from > iq-internet.com to world.std.com at a rate of several messages per > minute, each one refused. > > THIS IS NOT A POLICY PROBLEM -- THIS IS A TECHNICAL PROBLEM. > > There is no reason for a host to send thousands of email msgs each > being refused long after being informed of this state of affairs > except: > > a) maliciousness > b) severe technical failure or error, > or gross operating negligence. > > I informed Sprint of this several hours ago, I reported it as a > *TECHNICAL* problem although apparently Sprint network personnel > continue to infer that they can read the system owner's mind and > intuit that he is doing this for relatively innocent or purposeful > reasons such that Sprint can not get involved. > > I assert this judgement by Sprint network personnel is a serious error > and Sprint is ignoring a severe technical problem to the active > detriment of the world-wide internetwork. > > There is a knowing dereliction of TECHNICAL AND OPERATIONAL > responsibilities occurring here, and this abrogation of administrative > responsibility is causing my business palpable damage, with full > knowledge of authorized Sprint network operational and security > personnel and more than sufficient time for them to have responded. > > xc: Sprint Legal Dept, Software Tool & Die Counsel > > > -- > -Barry Shein > > Software Tool & Die | [email protected] | http://www.std.com > Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 617-739-0202 | Login: 617-739-WRLD > The World | Public Access Internet | Since 1989 > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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