Re: `tattle`, now with goodness

Good afternoon, Andrew, C.J.,

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Andrew Daviel wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, C.J. Steele, CISSP wrote:
>
>> If you're reading the [intrusions] list, you're probably not seeing
>> quite a bit of the lynching I've taken on [bugtrq], which has caused
>> `tattle` to evolve in many of the ways you're suggesting.  Given the
>> types of attacks we're all seeing, I suspect you'll find that `tattle`
>> makes a best-effort attempt to report the mail to the right parties
>> (i.e. abuse.net and then whois, where abuse doesn't reply), reverse
>> lookups of IP addresses, etc...
>
> I had a look at tattle, and it is certainly way more elegant
> than my thing ... using NET::Whois::IP which does the
> iteration through ARIN. My script is really ugly, but I will send you a
> copy if you promise not to laugh....
> I will also send the list of contacts, which is easier to work with..

 	I'm personally interested in both tools, and would be especially 
interested in seeing if the best of both can be merged into a single 
program.
 	I suspect others are too, so if you provide urls for readers to 
download them, that would be great.
 	Cheers,
 	- Bill

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