contact at yahoo mail? (they think we're an open relay :< )

Thu Oct 9 21:29:52 UTC 2003

We are listed in no-more-funn.moensted.dk as 127.0.0.2 which
is described as:

+ NERD-CA ip-space assigned to Canada: ca.countries.nerd.dk -> 127.0.0.2
216.220.40/24 is in ca, rejected based on geographical location
about: Please see our webpage for more information
about: This zone lists ONLY based on geographic information
about: The zone does NOT contain known spammers, nor open relays

We do cop to being Canadian, but that's about it. I hope yahoo isn't
keying on this RBL.

-mark

...and we've already filled out the retest form at Yahoo.

On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Thor Larholm wrote:

> If you read through all of that page, you will notice that Yahoo itself
> has a re-test script you can use to trigger a verification.
>
> http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/mail/cgi_retest
>
> Yahoo is not your only problem, if you look at
> http://moensted.dk/spam/?addr=216.220.40.247 you will notice that
> several DNSBL lists that IP address. No-more-fun believes it to be a
> "Direct spam source" and ArixDictStale says it has performed active
> dictionary attacks within the last 3 months.
>
> If you want to positively check whether you are an open relay, I would
> recommend testing through ORDB at http://ordb.org/submit/
>
>
> Regards
> Thor Larholm
> PivX Solutions, LLC - Senior Security Researcher
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Jeftovic [mailto:markjr at easydns.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 1:23 PM
> To: nanog at merit.org
> Subject: contact at yahoo mail? (they think we're an open relay :< )
>
>
>
>
> Today our email forwarders started getting this from yahoo.com mail
> handlers:
>
> 553 Mail from 216.220.40.247 not allowed - VS99-IP1 deferred - see
> help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/defer/defer-02.html (#5.7.1) Connection
> closed by foreign host.
>
> Which when you go look at that page basically tells you you're probably
> an open relay (which we're not), etc.
>
> Can any mail admins at Yahoo contact me offlist, or post what the
> restrictions are or at what levels this will kick in?
>
> -mark
>
>

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