[159369] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [SHAME] Spam Rats
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Julian DeMarchi)
Wed Jan 9 22:55:25 2013
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:49:57 +1000
From: Julian DeMarchi <julian@jdcomputers.com.au>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.1301092225320.26706@soloth.lewis.org>
Reply-To: julian@jdcomputers.com.au
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 01/10/2013 01:30 PM, Jon Lewis wrote:
>> 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.
>
> If they're not mail servers, how is the DNSBL listing impacting them
> (assuming anyone even uses spamrats)?
Here[0] is the only message they give you. All mail servers have PTRs.
At least one company uses spamrats. That's how it got escalated to me.
--julian
0 - http://pastebin.com/dBSncSaV
