Hi! A very very bad example of how not to retire a rbl.
What they did was just list the world and let everybody suffer with it. This is just a very malicious act and not now things should have executed at all. With kind regards, Raymond Dijkxhoorn > Op 7 mrt 2025 om 10:40 heeft Carsten Schiefner via mailop <[email protected]> > het volgende geschreven: > > Hi Lars & all, > >> On 07.03.2025 10:13, Lars Bornemann via mailop wrote: >> We have landed on the following DNS blacklist with our mail servers: >> “ix.dnsbl.manitu.net <http://ix.dnsbl.manitu.net>”. This is reported by our >> monitoring system (Nagios). >> According to the website, this blacklist has been out of service since >> January 2025. >> Now our question, how can it be that we still end up on this list and how >> can we have ourselves removed again? > > no chance - as it appears, Manitu/Nixspam has gone berzerk: > >> Subject: [mailop] Manitu listing the world? >> Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2025 09:43:57 +0100 >> From: lukn via mailop <[email protected]> >> Reply-To: lukn <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Hello List >> I'm aware Manitu/Nixspam shut down a while ago, but iirc they promised RFC >> compliant slow shutdown. As of today we see an increased number of rejects >> due to Manitu listings. A quick lookup of some samples indicates that >> ix.dnsbl.manitu.net is returning 127.0.0.2 for every query. Thus any mail >> administrator still querying that list results in their clients having a >> very quiet inbox today... >> Can anyone confirm? Is there a statement from Manitu? > > And as it appears the entire of Berlin's public service might have a quiet > friday today in terms of inbound external email - that's how I got to notice > this failure. > > Cheers from Berlin-Friedenau > > -C. > _______________________________________________ > mailop mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list [email protected] https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
