I woke up this morning to a barrage of complaints from users that our mail 
servers' outbound emails are bouncing due to a blacklisting. Sure enough, 
mxtoolbox.com<http://mxtoolbox.com> reports that 
rbl.iprange.net<http://rbl.iprange.net> has blacklisted us for more than a day. 
However, looking up our address on the rbl.iprange.net<http://rbl.iprange.net> 
lookup webpage shows we're NOT listed. But a check of the RBL's DNS shows that 
we are. Then I found this on the rbl.iprange.net<http://rbl.iprange.net> 
owner's website ():

"rbl.iprange.net<http://rbl.iprange.net> (is offline since 01-01-2018) please 
replace it with rbl.realtimeblacklist.com<http://rbl.realtimeblacklist.com>
rbl.iprange.net<http://rbl.iprange.net> will mark every ip address as listed to 
force removal of this server."

What the heck? I've tried contacting 
realtimeblacklisk.com<http://realtimeblacklisk.com>, but they're in the 
Netherlands and apparently fast asleep (in more ways than one, it seems).

 -mel beckman

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