Outgoing ping unknown

Fri, 25 Jan 2002 23:39:49 -0700 (MST)

It appears to belong to ans.net:

whois 207.26.131.137
ANS Communications, Inc (NETBLK-ANS-C-BLOCK4)
   100 Clearbrook Rd
   Elmsford, NY 10523
   US

   Netname: ANS-C-BLOCK4
   Netblock: 207.24.0.0 - 207.27.255.255
   Maintainer: ANS

   Coordinator:
      ANS Network Operations Center  (ANS-NOC-ARIN)  noc@ANS.NET
      1-800-456-6300

   Domain System inverse mapping provided by:

   NS.ANS.NET                   192.103.63.100
   NIS.ANS.NET                  147.225.1.2

   Record last updated on 25-Sep-2001.

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The last hop for me when I traceroute there is  137.39.23.34
which belongs to UUNet:
 whois  137.39.23.34
UUNET Technologies, Inc. (NET-UUNET-WAN)
   3060 Williams Drive
   Fairfax, VA 22031
   US

   Netname: UUNET-WAN
   Netblock: 137.39.0.0 - 137.39.255.255

   Coordinator:
      UUNET, Technical Support  (OA12-ARIN)  help@uu.net
      (800) 900-0241

   Domain System inverse mapping provided by:

   AUTH03.NS.UU.NET             198.6.1.83
   AUTH51.NS.UU.NET             198.6.1.162

   Record last updated on 05-Jul-1996.
   Database last updated on  25-Jan-2002 19:56:21 EDT.

When you go to www.ans.net it brings up a uunet page.
Definately looks like a shady operation :)

JD