What's "JUMPSTART-5" on the Comcast network?

[Graham Freeman]

Howdy,

I'm investigating a network abuse incident and am curious about the
meaning/significance of "JUMPSTART-5" on Comcast's network.

gflaptop:~ graham$ jwhois 98.210.42.[elided]
[Querying whois.arin.net]
[whois.arin.net]
Comcast Cable Communications, Inc. JUMPSTART-5 (NET-98-192-0-0-1)
98.192.0.0 - 98.255.255.255
Comcast Cable Communications, Inc. BAYAREA-CPE-26 (NET-98-210-0-0-1)
98.210.0.0 - 98.210.255.255

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Any clues would be appreciated. :)

thanks,

Graham

[Roy]

As I remember its an arbitrary field that the network owner gets to fill
in during the registration process

Roy

[edwardm...@gmail.com]

You might want to look up Amy moody Cleveland ga. Absor_ global on gms developers. Hacked my ecerything

[Rich Travis]

On Tuesday, February 18, 2020 at 9:49:49 PM UTC-5, edwardm...@gmail.com wrote:
> You might want to look up Amy moody Cleveland ga. Absor_ global on gms developers. Hacked my ecerything

any more info on that?

[Steve]

Curious what the outcome of this was? Unusual to see comcast IPs performing certain activities, I'm investigating something similar.

[Roy]

JUMPSTART-5 is an arbitrary handle assigned by Comcast to that block of
IP addresses. Note the handle of BAYAREA-CPE-26. BAYAREA-CPE-26 is a
suballocation of the parent JUMPSTART-5 allocation which appears to have
been allocated in 2007

[Julian Macassey]

Another idiot from goggles bad ripoff of usenet.
1. responding to a post from 2008 - That's 25 years ago.

2. No word wrap.

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