[26677] in North American Network Operators' Group
Fw: Administrivia: ORBS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sehmel, William C.)
Thu Jan 13 12:07:23 2000
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From: "Sehmel, William C." <bsehmel@narrows.com>
To: "NANOG" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 09:07:55 -0800
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Got this from bugtraq.
Bill Sehmel
Peninsula School District
Information Services
Jr. Network Engineer.
253-857-8180
bsehmel@mail.peninsiula.wednet.edu
-----Original Message-----
From: Elias Levy <aleph1@SECURITYFOCUS.COM>
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM <BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM>
Date: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 1:48 PM
Subject: Administrivia: ORBS
>It seems the folks at ORBS (orbs.org) have decided that since our mail
>server its hosted of above.net, and above.net is filtering their
>probes since they claim they are a DoS, ORBS is adding any mail servers
>connected via above.net (including ours) to their spam relaying list,
>regardless that our servers have never perform relaying functions.
>I've emailed them but so far they have not responded. You may wish
>to email them (orbs@orbs.org) and voice your dissatisfaction.
>Of curse if our email to you is being blocked by ORBS then you will
>probably not receive this message ;-)
>
>--
>Elias Levy
>Security Focus
>http://www.securityfocus.com/
