[Wikipedia-l] Blocking IPs

[Pierre Abbat]

On Friday 26 July 2002 22:21, Toby Bartels wrote:
> The guy attacking [[User:Rlee0001]] is back with a new IP.
> I blocked it (see [[Special:Blockedips]], but I'm new at this sort of
> thing, so if there's anything that I should know when I become part of a
> cabal -- like how to figure out if an IP is dynamic and when to unblock it?
> -- then somebody should tell me.

[phma at neofelis /tmp]$ whois 66.24.193.53 at whois.arin.net
[whois.arin.net]
ROADRUNNER-NYS (NETBLK-ROADRUNNER-NYS)
   13241 Woodland Park Road
   Herndon, VA 20171
   US

   Netname: ROADRUNNER-NYS
   Netblock: 66.24.0.0 - 66.24.255.255
   Maintainer: RRNS
 
   Coordinator:
      ServiceCo LLC  (ZS30-ARIN)  abuse at rr.com
      1-703-345-3416
 
   Domain System inverse mapping provided by:
 
   DNS1.RR.COM                  24.30.200.3
   DNS2.RR.COM                  24.30.201.3
   DNS3.RR.COM                  24.30.199.7
   DNS4.RR.COM                  65.24.0.172
 
   ADDRESSES WITHIN THIS BLOCK ARE NON-PORTABLE
[phma at neofelis /tmp]$ nslookup 66.24.193.53
Name:    alb-66-24-193-53.nycap.rr.com
Address:  66.24.193.53

Road Runner addresses are generally dynamic, though people who leave their 
computers on all the time get the same address for months. You may want to 
complain to abuse at rr.com and ask them to lart the vandal. This one appears to 
be in Albany, New York.

phma