what the heck do i do now?

Thu Feb 1 21:17:50 UTC 2007

David Ulevitch wrote:
> Not offering a solution but a bit of an explanation perhaps...
>
> From: http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/rblsmtpd.html
> "If you do not supply any -r options, rblsmtpd tries an RBL source of 
> rbl.maps.vix.com. This will be changed in subsequent versions."
>
> So checking the last released version:
> /ucspi-tcp-0.88# grep -hn maps.vix.com rblsmtpd.c
> 193:  if (flagwantdefaultrbl) rbl("rbl.maps.vix.com");
>
> Looks like that could be a cause of some of your pain...
> Not everyone runs rblsmptd on their mailserver, but I know lots of 
> large mail servers that run rblsmptd (qmail).
>
> The fact that the option is the default without being explicit means 
> that at least some folks don't even know maps.vix.com zones are no 
> longer present and the current failure case is not impacting them.
The solution then:

maps.vix.com.         IN NS   a.ns.yp.to.
maps.vix.com.         IN NS   b.ns.yp.to.

/ Mat