[94648] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: what the heck do i do now?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Wed Jan 31 18:14:44 2007
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:13:25 -0500
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <12820.1170284241@sa.vix.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> once upon a time, someone more insane than myself wanted to close an
> RBL and did so by replacing it with a wildcard entry. we all hated
> that since it caused a lot of mail to bounce. (all mail that would
> otherwise have been received by that RBL's subscribers, in fact.) it
> did however have the effect of causing the subscribers to reconfigure
> their mailers to stop querying the now-dead RBL in question. what's
> the current thinking on this?
one problem with this is that the pain is not felt by the misconfigured
folk, but by distant innocents.
randy
