[69645] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anyone from AT&T here? (AT&T bogus DNSBL answers)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Raymond Dijkxhoorn)
Sat Apr 17 18:35:26 2004
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 00:34:52 +0200 (CEST)
From: Raymond Dijkxhoorn <raymond@prolocation.net>
To: Steve Linford <linford@spamhaus.org>
Cc: jlewis@lewis.org, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <p06020407bca75bbddd4c@eng.ultradesign.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Hi!
> No mistake, although 12.149.189.2 is a customer's NS it uses AT&T's
> NS as the resolver. We've have complaints from other AT&T users about
> the same thing, as does another DNSBL (SpamCop), and there's now an
> answer from AT&T to one of their customers who forwarded AT&Ts
> response:
>
> "I finally talked to someone who knows what the problem is. Your sbl sites
> have been blocked by the standard DNS forwarders supplied by ATT. This is
> due to the workload being generated on them from mailservers."
Duh! This is really dumb.
Will they also block microsoft in their forwarders when there are new
patches like last week, thats also generating NS traffic...
Unbelievable.
Bye,
Raymond.
