what the heck do i do now?

John Levine johnl at iecc.com
Thu Feb 1 00:17:49 UTC 2007


>it caused a lot of mail to bounce.  (all mail that would otherwise
>have been received by that RBL's subscribers, in fact.)  it did
>however have the effect of causing the subscribers to reconfigure
>their mailers to stop querying the now-dead RBL in question.  what's
>the current thinking on this?

I know the guy, in fact was talking to him on the phone earlier this
afternoon and it wasn't as effective as you might hope.  He may have
had to abandon the domain.

A probably not surprising number of people have decided that my
abuse.net is a DNSBL, and nothing I've been able to do makes a serious
dent.  Look up the TXT record for any n.n.n.n.abuse.net where the n's
are decimal numbers.

>2208 68.216.187.10

This is Integrity On Line, which purports to be a "filtered solution
provider", which I presume means a big thick firewall that keeps out
anything that might upset their subscribers.  It might be illuminating
to give them a call, express concern that a computer in their center
is sending 400 unwanted messages a minute to you, and see if you can
find anyone who has any idea how the mail servers are configured.  I
realize they're only a tiny percentage of your junk traffic, but their
clue level is probably typical.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl at iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, Mayor
"More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.




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