Fwd: Verisign's New Change and Outdate RBL's

[Mike Tancsa]

FYI, for those who have not heard, Verisign has taken it upon itself to 
respond to non existent domain names by wildcarding .com and .net. This has 
the unfortunate effect below :(

        ---Mike


> Delivered-To: address@hidden
> Delivered-To: address@hidden
> Delivered-To: address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 00:39:14 -0400
> From: Patrick Muldoon <address@hidden>
> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030701
> X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Verisign's New Change and Outdate RBL's
> Sender: address@hidden
> X-Loop: nanog
> X-Virus-Scanned: by Sentex Communications (avscan1/20021227)
> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp)
>
>
> Was playing with a test box here at home. Installed SpamAssassian from a 
> newely cvsup'd ports tree on a FreeBSD box, and was surprised to see 
> messages getting marked as received in blacklists that no longer exist.
> Most noteably ORBS.  Since this was a fresh Install I hadn't gone through 
> and removed the dead RBL's from 20_head_tests.cf yet.  Since dorkslayers 
> doesn't exist. any queries for it are returning that infamous sitefinder 
> address.
>
> address@hidden doon]$ host  34.131.246.64.orbs.dorkslayers.com
> 34.131.246.64.orbs.dorkslayers.com has address 64.94.110.11
>
> So anybody that hasn't update their SpamAssassian config, now has the 
> added benefit of all ip's being tagged as an open relay.
>
> Just an FYI
> -Patrick

--------------------------------------------------------------------
Mike Tancsa,                                      tel +1 519 651 3400
Sentex Communications,                            address@hidden
Providing Internet since 1994                    www.sentex.net
Cambridge, Ontario Canada                         www.sentex.net/mike