[121947] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Threading the senderbase reputation needle
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Drew Weaver)
Tue Feb 2 10:53:52 2010
From: Drew Weaver <drew.weaver@thenap.com>
To: 'Rich Kulawiec' <rsk@gsp.org>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 10:51:10 -0500
In-Reply-To: <20100202154504.GA10839@gsp.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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".
--------
That certainly is true, but if a "real mail server" that has real, non-gene=
ric names with matching forward/reverse DNS happens to be in the same /24 a=
s a server that doesn't it is given a poor reputation by Senderbase since S=
enderbase cannot do simple RIR lookups to see the scope of that particular =
customer's network/impact.=20
-Drew
=20
