Message posted by Gary Sellani on September 23, 2000 at 23:32:05 EST:

Just for fun I did some pinging to see what was reachable.

First the main address:
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Microsoft(R) Windows NT(TM)
(C) Copyright 1985-1996 Microsoft Corp.

E:\>ping 134.205.0.0

Pinging 134.205.0.0 with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from 206.38.114.10: Destination net unreachable.
Request timed out.
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OK, so who is 206.38.114.10? Well, doing the arin we get:
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DOD Network Information Center (NETBLK-DDN-BLK-36) DDN-BLK-36
206.36.0.0 - 206.39.255.0
REGIONAL CONTROL CENTER (NETBLK-NIPR-ACCESS1) NIPR-ACCESS1
206.38.0.0 - 206.38.255.0

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Now trying to ping the static address of the emailer:
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E:\>ping 124.205.123.140

Pinging 124.205.123.140 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 204.246.214.105: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 204.246.214.105: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 204.246.214.105: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 204.246.214.105: Destination host unreachable.

E:\>
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Doing a arin on the replying computer gives us:
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Global Crossing (NET-GBLX-7) GBLX-7 204.246.192.0 - 204.246.255.255
LAX - Los Angeles WHIP (NETBLK-FGC-REQ000000000970) FGC-REQ000000000970
204.246.214.0 - 204.246.214.255

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Now checking on global crossing, we get:
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Global Crossing (NET-GBLX-7)
1111 Karlstad Drive
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
US

Netname: GBLX-7
Netblock: 204.246.192.0 - 204.246.255.255
Maintainer: GBLX

Coordinator:
Global Crossing (IA12-ORG-ARIN) ipadmin@gblx.net
888-541-9888

Domain System inverse mapping provided by:

NAME.ROC.GBLX.NET 209.130.187.10
NAME.PHX.GBLX.NET 206.165.6.10

Record last updated on 21-Mar-2000.
Database last updated on 22-Sep-2000 18:38:25 EDT.

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BTW, the GALT.OSD.MIL ends up being linked to SRI in Menlo Park.

My highly uneducated guess is you have a military computer user who is using a commercial service as a gateway to perhaps reach a civilian contractor.

Just to close the loop, lets see the network info for Edwards and Nellis. First Edwards:
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Air Force Flight Test Center (NET-ELAN)
95 CS/SCBNM
35 N. Wolfe Ave.
Building 3940, Room 108
Edwards Air Force Base, CA 93524

Netname: ELAN
Netnumber: 129.198.0.0

Coordinator:
Haberman, David (DH240-ARIN) DAVID.HABERMAN@EDWARDS.AF.MIL
(805) 277-5038

Domain System inverse mapping provided by:

ENTERPRISE.EDWARDS.AF.MIL 129.198.241.35
NS2.EDWARDS.AF.MIL 129.198.241.41

Record last updated on 26-Aug-1998.
Database last updated on 22-Sep-2000 18:38:25 EDT.
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And now Nellis:
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Nellis Air Force Base (NET-NELLIS)
554 Communications Squadron (ACC)
4375 N. Washington Blvd
Nellis AFB, NV 89131-7000

Netname: NELLIS
Netnumber: 132.58.0.0

Coordinator:
Barbour, Scott (SB5536-ARIN) SCOTT.BARBOUR@DNS2.NELLIS.AF.MIL
(702) 652-9318

Domain System inverse mapping provided by:

BNCC.NELLIS.AF.MIL 132.58.120.19
DNS2.NELLIS.AF.MIL 132.58.120.20

Record last updated on 21-Aug-1997.
Database last updated on 22-Sep-2000 18:38:25 EDT.

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Nothing matches, but I got the Nellis and Edwards information by pinging the nameserver, but the email is going to be on a different server. Now if someone got email from Nellis or Edwards and has the routing information, we could see if there is any common ground.

In Reply to: Groom Lake Sector 4 Computers posted by Mike on September 23, 2000 at 13:59:04 EST:

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