[78714] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: sorbs.net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Mon Mar 21 11:12:03 2005
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 16:11:12 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
In-reply-to: <20050321105143.U24219@mail.tacorp.net>
To: Jason Slagle <raistlin@tacorp.net>
Cc: Paul G <paul@rusko.us>, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Jason Slagle wrote:
>
> Lady was running exchange. She had the Symantec virus/spam/crap filter
> for it installed.. All email to her was bouncing with a 550 spam site
> deny.
>
> We jerked around with it for quite some time before we realized that one
> of the dnsbl's that the Symantec product was using was returning positive
> for ALL queries.
>
> This is the risk you run - this product either had it on by default, or it
> was in a list of options to turn on. End users don't know what it is, and
actually the risk being run is 'not understanding what you are doing' :(
mark this admin of mail systems up with the others who blithely use ANY
RBL without knowing how/what/where/when it gets made.
-Chris
