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Re: It's Friday evening (in North America) so you know what to expect

  • From: william
  • Date: Sat May 03 01:55:15 2003

Sorry about this.  I meant to reply privately to Richard and not send this 
to everyone...

On Fri, 2 May 2003 [email protected] wrote:

> The address "GPO BOx 1670N" is associated with Department of Planning annd 
> Development with phone# being very close. Here is the info:
> 
> DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING DEVELOPMENT
> 
> Myer House, 250 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne 3000
> (GPO Box 1670N, Melbourne 3001)
> Phone: (03) 9669 1100 Fax: (03) 9669 1005 
> 
> Secretary of the Department
> Mr Barry Nicholls
> Ph: (03) 9669 1100; Fax: (03) 9663 1670
> Executive Assistant: Ms Julie Kyriakou, Phone: (03) 9669 1864 
> 
> However I do not think based on looking at www.vic.gov.au that this 
> department is still operating, so 2nd best guess would be Department of 
> Human Services in Victoria, Australia, (they have subunit called "office 
> of housing"). Their domain is dhs.vic.gov.au and you can lookup technical 
> contact info in whois on this ("whois -h whois.aunic.net dhs.gov.au") and 
> also see http://www.dhs.vic.gov.au/contact.htm
> 
> On Sat, 3 May 2003, Richard Cox wrote:
> 
> > 
> > This evening it appeared that AS 9929 (China Netcom Corporation)
> > had started to BGP announce the netblock "HCV": 152.147.0.0/16
> > 
> > That netblock is assigned by ARIN to 
> > 
> >  OrgName:    Housing and Construction Victoria 
> >  OrgID:      HCV
> >  Address:    GPO Box 1670N
> >  Address:    Melbourne, Victoria 3001
> >  Country:    AU
> >  NetRange:   152.147.0.0 - 152.147.255.255 
> >  CIDR:       152.147.0.0/16 
> >  NetName:    HOUSINGVIC
> >  NetHandle:  NET-152-147-0-0-1
> >  Parent:     NET-152-0-0-0-0
> >  NetType:    Direct Assignment
> >  RegDate:    1991-08-23
> >  Updated:    1991-08-23
> >  TechHandle: TL152-ARIN
> >  TechName:   Lewis, Terry 
> >  TechPhone:  +61 3 669 1028
> > 
> > Housing and Construction Victoria are most certainly not in China.
> > Given the timing, the intention here hardly needs spelling out.
> > 
> > Roland Verlander, who lives in Australia, very helpfully tells me:
> > 
> > "The contact information is outdated, so I unfortunately cannot attempt
> > to contact the original owner.  I searched AUNIC for POCs with the name
> > Terry Lewis but I only found other people named Terry Lewis. APNIC has
> > no results on Terry Lewis."
> > 
> > "The phone number isn't valid, all phone #s in Oz were changed to
> > 8 digits a few years ago (that one's 7 digits) and old 7 digit numbers
> > don't work anymore; +61 3 669 1028 would have been converted to either
> > +61 3 8669 1028 or +61 3 9669 1028."
> > 
> > (I checked - neither of those possibilities is a working number)
> > 
> > "No entry in the phone book (white pages) for the name Terry Lewis.
> > The organisation is not legally registered and I can't find a website
> > for it, so I guess it no longer exists"
> > 
> >  From: http://www.cidr-report.org/cgi-bin/as-report?as=9929
> > 
> > Upstream Adjacent AS list for AS9929:
> >   AS4637    REACH Reach Network Border AS
> >   AS1       GNTY-1 Genuity
> >   AS7018    ATT-INTERNET4 AT&T WorldNet Services
> >   AS2516    KDDI KDDI CORPORATION
> >   AS3549    GBLX Global Crossing
> >   AS3356    LEVEL3 Level 3 Communications, LLC
> >   AS1239    SPRINTLINK Sprint
> >   AS3561    CWUSA Cable & Wireless USA
> >   AS701     ALTERNET-AS UUNET Technologies, Inc.
> > 
> > Ladies and gentlemen, you may wish to adjust your routing.
> > 
> > Richard Cox