[Gllug] RBLs again

Mark Lowes hamster at korenwolf.net
Tue Jul 2 16:18:26 UTC 2002


On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 17:00, Xander D Harkness wrote:
> I am in the process of upgrading from exim3 to exim4.  One of the 
> interesting features is it will now allow domain names in rbl queries.
> Hence if I want hotmail users blocked I just stick 
> hotmail.com.bl.harkness.co.uk  IN A 127.0.0.1 in my harkness zone file. 
> and use bl.harkness.co.uk as the rbl dns in my exim config.

I need to spend more time looking at exim4, the acls look _really_ nice
:)

[...]
> It seems that the British Computer Society has a mail server listed on 
> the RBL ;-) A great advert for their expertise......

weasel [mark]-> rblcheck 194.159.232.250
194.159.232.250 RBL filtered by relays.osirusoft.com
194.159.232.250 not RBL filtered by relays.ordb.org
194.159.232.250 RBL filtered by dnsbl.njabl.org
194.159.232.250 not RBL filtered by ztl.dorkslayers.com
194.159.232.250 not RBL filtered by blacklist.spambag.org
194.159.232.250 not RBL filtered by opm.blitzed.org

The osirusoft hit comes up as 127.0.0.2 "Verified Open Relay" so I guess
a lack of appropriate clue at the BCS :)

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