Thought this was funny.. i.e. how to bring cf down for a few days :p

>>
>>Please open a ticket based on the message below. This is a Schlumberger
>>customer attempting to reach a Schlumberger host. I forwarded a message
>>from Markus to the helpdesk on November 19th but Markus indicates nobody
>>ever contacted him.
>>
>>This ticket should not be opened in my name, the ticket is for Markus
>>Svennerstal as indicated in the message below.
>>
>>
>>>From: Markus Svennerstal <hacke@sdf.se>
>>>Subject: Routing problem
>>>To: solutions@houston.omnes.net
>>>Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 02:21:29 +0100 (CET)
>>>X-Mailer: ELM
>>>
>>>Hello! I am failing to connect to a server lying one hop behind your router
>>>omnes.Dallas.cw.net
>>> 166.48.82.14).
>>>My connection attempts succeed from every other site than the one I'm
>>>connecting from 90% of my online time.
>>>The server I am attempting to connect to is Thera.carrionfields.org
>>> 128.58.80.6).
>>>When I use nslookup to lookup thera.carrionfields.org, it returns the
>>>following:
>>>Server: proxy.sdf.se
>>>Address: 192.168.1.6
>>>
>>>Non-authoritative answer:
>>>Name: carrionfields.org
>>>Address: 128.58.80.6
>>>
>>>But when I look up the site's IP address 128.58.80.6 I get the following
>>>error message:
>>>*** proxy.sdf.se can't find 128.58.80.6: Non-existent host/domain
>>>My traceroutes go through fine as well. It looks like this:
>>>traceroute to 192.168.1.6 (192.168.1.6), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
>>> 1 proxy (192.168.1.6) 1.004 ms 0.671 ms 0.623 ms
>>>
>>>Traceroute to 128.58.80.6...
>>> 1 sdf-gw (195.84.137.225) 2.510 ms 2.448 ms 2.296 ms
>>> 2 195.84.187.65 (195.84.187.65) 51.884 ms 41.824 ms 42.773 ms
>>> 3 kisinetcore1-fe0-0-0.swe.tfi.net (195.84.184.241) 47.531 ms 42.521
ms
>>>75.569 ms
>>> 4 swe1-a4-0-8.bb.tfi.net (195.84.184.85) 46.336 ms 58.720 ms 46.471 ms
>>> 5 Hssi2-0.GW1.STK2.ALTER.NET (146.188.48.5) 69.471 ms 51.009 ms
>>59.887 ms
>>> 6 321.ATM1-0-0.CR1.STK2.Alter.Net (146.188.5.61) 44.842 ms 45.242 ms
>>>42.615 ms
>>> 7 ATM5-0-0.219.BR1.NYC5.Alter.Net (146.188.7.110) 150.683 ms 141.439
ms
>>>141.079 ms
>>> 8 331.ATM4-0-0.GW2.NYC5.Alter.Net (137.39.30.133) 144.446 ms 161.786
ms
>>>142.610 ms
>>> 9 152.ATM2-0.XR2.NYC1.ALTER.NET (146.188.177.254) 142.022 ms 143.7


>Good morning. I received this e-mail today. The latest part of the mail
>states that this is a Schlumberger customer. I cannot find any information on
>Mr. Svennerstal. He does not come up in LDAP. Is he a SLB employee? If not
>who is he with and why is he trying to access our network? Is there a contact
>number for him? We just need a little more information. I would appreciate
>your help on this as soon as possible. Thanks for your help.
>
>Cable & Wireless Omnes
>__________________________________________

His email address is in the message I forwarded, I suggest you ask him.
I have only the email he sent to our external web site (which I included
in my mail)

-jim sullivan


>> Markus,
>>
>> If you are trying to connect to carrionfields.org, make sure you connect
>> to port 9999. In the future, please mail any problems you have to
>> imps@carrionfields.org. We can handle your problem much easier than anyone
>> else. I'm rather supprised I got the email from the place you sent it.
>>
>> --Steve
>> aka Jullias

>Thanks for the information Steve, and my apologies for the inconvenience.
>I would have contacted the cf staff, but I did not know how to reach you.
>I do, of course, try connecting to port 9999 but I never get through.
>Do I have to mail imps@carrionfields.org about the problem, or is it
>known of already?

>-Marcus

From helms@asgaard.wan.cwomnes.net Tue Jan 19 02:42 MET 1999
Message-ID: <19990118194201.A7420@wan.cwomnes.net>
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 19:42:01 -0600
From: "Steven E. Helms" <Steve.Helms@asgaard.wan.cwomnes.net>
To: Markus Svennerstal <hacke@sdf.se>, Steve.Helms@cwomnes.net
Subject: Re: Connection problems
Content-Length: 838

Well, we currently have 61 people on the game, so I know that it's
functioning properly. Can you traceroute to the machine? You should
make it all the way except for the last hop.

If you have a firewall at your site, that could be blocking it. I need
your IP address for me to troubleshoot this end.

Make sure you send me any questions you have. The last mail message you
sent to product@houston.omnes.net was what took us down. We have
no affiliation with Omnes.

--Steve

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