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Re: ATLBL Contact

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Thu Dec 20 09:21:42 2012

Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 09:21:25 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: Alexander McMillen <amcmillen@sliqua.com>
In-Reply-To: <50D31CD8.2080000@sliqua.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Thu, 20 Dec 2012, Alexander McMillen wrote:

> Good morning all,
>
> Is there a contact for the ATLBL DNSBL or Network Solutions e-mail that
> could contact me off-list?
>
> The ATLBL blacklist is causing mail delivery issues from 199.58.208.0/21
> to all mail servers utilizing the ATLBL blacklist (most notably Network
> Solutions). I have done some research into the ATLBL blacklist and their
> website just shows a bunch of advertisements with no relevant content
> regarding the DNSBL (awesome)... perhaps someone at Network Solutions
> could address this.

atlbl.com doesn't appear to be a DNSBL [anymore].  If you look at the 
whois, it looks more like domain tasters have taken it over after its 
registration lapsed.

Anyone using it for blocking is resolving all IPs (via a wildcard A 
record) to 141.8.225.13.

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