Many of you have probably been receiving email from a Mr. Andrew Bain. Whether or not I agree with his theological views, his methods of spamming his recipients is clearly undesireable.
If my research is correct, Mr. Bain's ISP is a company called "The Planet" out of Texas. I've posted the research at the bottom of this post, but if any of you recipients would like to comment to his ISP about Mr. Bain's email practices, you can reach them at "abuse@theplanet.com"
UPDATE: It looks as though "The Planet" is reselling bandwidth to the real host of Mr. Bain... Quadra Hosting. This makes sense, as Quadra is an Australian Company, and Mr. Bain is in Sydney. Anyway, they have their own contact page where you can report abuse.
Here is a dig on Mr. Bain's domain name, godisnoliar.com.
talbrech@gandolf ~ $ dig www.godnoliar.com
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER< <- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 34854
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.godnoliar.com. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.godnoliar.com. 86306 IN A 69.93.171.234
;; Query time: 3 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.2.10#53(192.168.2.10)
;; WHEN: Fri Jun 3 13:40:55 2005
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 51
Following is a truncated traceroute from my box to Mr. Bain's webserver IP address:
talbrech@gandolf ~ $ tracepath www.godnoliar.com
1: 192.168.2.5 (192.168.2.5) 0.197ms pmtu 1500
1: smoothwall (192.168.2.10) 5.169ms
2: no reply
3: ge-2-1-ur02.coatesville.pa.panjde.comcast.net (68.86.216.145) 15.193ms
4: te-9-1-ur01.coatesville.pa.panjde.comcast.net (68.86.209.73) asymm 3 15.521ms
5: po80-ar01.coatesville.pa.panjde.comcast.net (68.86.209.69) asymm 4 15.377ms
6: po90-ar01.wallingford.pa.panjde.comcast.net (68.86.208.37) asymm 5 15.100ms
7: po90-ar01.401nbroadst.pa.panjde.comcast.net (68.86.208.29) asymm 6 17.642ms
8: 68.86.211.14 (68.86.211.14) asymm 9 19.549ms
9: 12.119.53.49 (12.119.53.49) asymm 12 20.230ms
10: tbr2-p012401.phlpa.ip.att.net (12.123.137.49) asymm 12 23.643ms
11: tbr1-cl9.wswdc.ip.att.net (12.122.2.85) asymm 13 26.330ms
12: tbr1-cl4.sl9mo.ip.att.net (12.122.10.30) asymm 14 42.447ms
13: tbr2-cl2.sl9mo.ip.att.net (12.122.9.142) asymm 14 45.615ms
14: tbr2-cl6.dlstx.ip.att.net (12.122.10.90) asymm 15 57.952ms
15: gar1-p370.dlrtx.ip.att.net (12.123.196.97) 54.542ms
16: 12.119.136.14 (12.119.136.14) asymm 17 55.542ms
17: dist-vlan32.dsr3-2.dllstx3.theplanet.com (70.85.127.62) 54.908ms
18: dist-vlan21.dsr1-1.dllstx2.theplanet.com (70.85.127.67) 54.544ms
19: car2-1-v2.dllstx2.theplanet.com (12.96.160.45) 58.150ms
20: win2.sansolo.com (69.93.171.234) 60.701ms reached
Also one to his mailserver IP address:
talbrech@gandolf ~ $ tracepath 67.19.160.66
1: 192.168.2.5 (192.168.2.5) 0.231ms pmtu 1500
1: smoothwall (192.168.2.10) 8.461ms
2: no reply
3: ge-2-1-ur02.coatesville.pa.panjde.comcast.net (68.86.216.145) 119.440ms
4: te-9-1-ur01.coatesville.pa.panjde.comcast.net (68.86.209.73) asymm 3 23.044ms
5: po80-ar01.coatesville.pa.panjde.comcast.net (68.86.209.69) asymm 4 18.351ms
6: po90-ar01.wallingford.pa.panjde.comcast.net (68.86.208.37) asymm 5 22.968ms
7: po90-ar01.401nbroadst.pa.panjde.comcast.net (68.86.208.29) asymm 6 21.824ms
8: 68.86.211.14 (68.86.211.14) asymm 9 27.446ms
9: 12.119.53.49 (12.119.53.49) asymm 12 27.166ms
10: tbr2-p012401.phlpa.ip.att.net (12.123.137.49) asymm 12 26.977ms
11: tbr1-cl9.wswdc.ip.att.net (12.122.2.85) asymm 13 27.575ms
12: tbr1-cl4.sl9mo.ip.att.net (12.122.10.30) asymm 14 48.754ms
13: tbr2-cl2.sl9mo.ip.att.net (12.122.9.142) asymm 14 46.756ms
14: tbr2-cl6.dlstx.ip.att.net (12.122.10.90) asymm 15 60.862ms
15: gar1-p370.dlrtx.ip.att.net (12.123.196.97) 54.319ms
16: 12.119.136.14 (12.119.136.14) asymm 17 56.154ms
17: dist-vlan31.dsr3-1.dllstx3.theplanet.com (70.85.127.29) 56.847ms
18: dist-vlan-42.dsr2-2.dllstx4.theplanet.com (70.85.127.91) 77.597ms
19: gig1-0-1.sm-car6-11.dllstx4.theplanet.com (67.19.255.42) 79.817ms
20: mail2.sansolo.com (67.19.160.66) 60.453ms reached