Yes, I did conflate Goldfield Telecom with Goldfield Telephone in the original post. Sorry. The site with the busted SSL also seems to have been hijacked. The first several times I tried getting to it, it redirected me to a bunch of BS. I did find this site: http://www.goldfieldaccess-ia.com/ ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Levine" <johnl at taugh.com> To: voiceops at voiceops.org Cc: voiceops at ics-il.net Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2019 1:16:38 PM Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Odd Routing to Iowa In article <1464181553.3249.1577818986090.JavaMail.mhammett at ThunderFuck> you write:
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The entity I'm calling is based out of Goldfield, so in this particular case, it isn't malicious. I'm not going to deny that there could be other malicious uses of that exchange.
Adding to the confusion, Goldfield Telecom sells and installs telco equipment. Their local phone company is an apparently unrelated entity called Goldfield Telephone, with a web site at www.goldfieldaccess.net with an expired SSL certificate. It's a tiny single switch RLEC. If they have a conference bridge, that screams traffic pumping.