[120101] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Arrogant RBL list maintainers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Wed Dec 9 15:25:17 2009
To: Ken Chase <ken@heavycomputing.ca>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:09:20 EST."
<20091209200920.GW19942@sizone.org>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:23:54 -0500
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:09:20 EST, Ken Chase said:
> To be clear: because the legitimate mailserver with a proper non-generic
> reverse was in a block with other generic reverses, they blacklisted you?
>
> That's egregiously harsh.
>
> SORBS was blocking a customer for a generic reverse entry, I gave them a legit
> looking reverse (that fwds properly too), solved, if a bit irritating. To
> require the whole BLOCK be totally legit is too much.
Especially if they think the "block" is a /24 and you think it's a /27 and
somebody else entirely has the /27 either side of you. I've seen *that*
sort of brain damage far too often even in recent years. RFC1519 was 16
frikking years ago, and some people *still* aren't on board.
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