[121944] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Threading the senderbase reputation needle
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Kulawiec)
Tue Feb 2 10:46:37 2010
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 10:45:04 -0500
From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <F3318834F1F89D46857972DD4B411D700183108411@EXCHANGE.thenap.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 09:37:44AM -0500, Drew Weaver wrote:
> Has anyone come up with a reverse DNS 'pattern' that one can employ
> that will prevent Senderbase from assigning a poor reputation to an entire
> /24 because they saw an email they didn't like from a single IP address?
I think this discussion would be much better on the mailop list, but
the short answer here is "real mail servers have real, non-generic names
with matching forward/reverse DNS".
---Rsk
