[94700] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: what the heck do i do now?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Sullivan)
Thu Feb 1 16:26:01 2007
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 08:17:50 +1100
From: Matthew Sullivan <matthew@sorbs.net>
In-reply-to: <45C13F3D.1080709@everydns.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
David Ulevitch wrote:
> Not offering a solution but a bit of an explanation perhaps...
>
> From: http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/rblsmtpd.html
> "If you do not supply any -r options, rblsmtpd tries an RBL source of
> rbl.maps.vix.com. This will be changed in subsequent versions."
>
> So checking the last released version:
> /ucspi-tcp-0.88# grep -hn maps.vix.com rblsmtpd.c
> 193: if (flagwantdefaultrbl) rbl("rbl.maps.vix.com");
>
> Looks like that could be a cause of some of your pain...
> Not everyone runs rblsmptd on their mailserver, but I know lots of
> large mail servers that run rblsmptd (qmail).
>
> The fact that the option is the default without being explicit means
> that at least some folks don't even know maps.vix.com zones are no
> longer present and the current failure case is not impacting them.
The solution then:
maps.vix.com. IN NS a.ns.yp.to.
maps.vix.com. IN NS b.ns.yp.to.
/ Mat
