[57049] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon mail server on MAPS RSS list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vinny Abello)
Thu Mar 27 16:14:22 2003
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 16:13:43 -0500
To: Richard Welty <rwelty@averillpark.net>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Vinny Abello <vinny@tellurian.com>
In-Reply-To: <E18yeT4-0002kH-00@skipper.averillpark.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 03:59 PM 3/27/2003 -0500, Richard Welty wrote:
>On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 13:40:00 -0700 Josh Gentry <jgentry@swcp.com> wrote:
> > We've got customers trying to receive email from people using Verizon for
> > Internet acess, and we are rejecting that mail because
> > out013pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.44] is on the MAPS RSS list. Can't
> > pull
> > up the MAPS RSS website at the moment to check why. Anyone know contact
> > info for Verizon for this kind of issue?
>
>maps RSS is open relays.
>
>try the abuse.net relay tester on the BL'd IP and see what it turns up,
>
> http://www.abuse.net/relay.html
Looks like that IP is on quite a few lists actually...
http://rbls.org/?q=206.46.170.44
Must be a very abused Verizon mail server, possibly one of many...
Vinny Abello
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