[159356] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [SHAME] Spam Rats
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Julian DeMarchi)
Wed Jan 9 22:12:16 2013
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:10:48 +1000
From: Julian DeMarchi <julian@jdcomputers.com.au>
To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAArzuosdf8rb_=5+Tf0omY_Yq7bF4rygsKNkh2QfkHCnSVUgOA@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Reply-To: julian@jdcomputers.com.au
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 01/10/2013 01:06 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Who uses it? Or did you see your IP listed in one of those multiple dnsbl
> query sites and contacted them on general principles even though you didn't
> see any actual bounced email that could be traced to a spam rats listing?
Customers use the range. They had a complaint to us that the IP was
listed by spamrats and thus the issue made it to my queue.
> That said, it is best practice to set ptr records even for your unassigned
> ip space
Mail servers do need to have PTRs, but it is my _choice_ if my hosts
that do not send mail have PTRs or not. I would not expect anyone to
block my /24 for lack of PTRs on non-mail-sending hosts.
--julian
