[94281] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: what happens when you put a typo in a DNSBL server?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Tue Jan 16 13:09:51 2007
Date: 16 Jan 2007 18:08:52 -0000
From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <sdps9fkjyk.fsf@wes.hardakers.net>
Cc: wjhns61@hardakers.net
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> Previous to this date a misconfigured ISP was just not being
>protected by the BL. Now, it's potentially dropping all mail from
>anyone because of the typo.
If only. I am constantly amazed at the bozos who misconfigure their
DNSBL lookups and don't notice. Many people are just sure that
abuse.net is a blacklist, and no matter what I do (try looking up
2.0.0.127.abuse.net) they keep hammering on it. I also see lookups to
names with http// in them and just about any other idiotic mistake you
can imagine, again no set of responses seems to get their attention.
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, Mayor
"More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.
