Deny MX queries for dynamic IP pools

2010-01-31 Thread Wael Shaheen
Dear DNS Experts, This post is intended for discussion. The ISP I work for has HUGE dynamic IP pools that are full of spammers (of course). This huge volume of spam is actually influencing the decision for some of the international providerĀ¹s whether to give us links or not let alone the bad repu

Re: Deny MX queries for dynamic IP pools

2010-01-31 Thread Wael Shaheen
ies in any way. Some users may choose to use their own installed DNS service, but then again if your service provider has a stable DNS service and a good and stable internet connection then would that overcome this disadvantage? At the end I think that something has to be

Re: Deny MX queries for dynamic IP pools

2010-01-31 Thread Wael Shaheen
Hi, On 1/31/10 5:28 PM, "Sten Carlsen" wrote: > To me this seems to be a firewall/routing issue. If you know for sure > that some IP is sending spam, if you can not stop them, then at least > you can block their outgoing access to port 25. Most of the RBLs list dynamic IP addresses for they sh

Re: Deny MX queries for dynamic IP pools

2010-02-08 Thread Wael Shaheen
3, Peter Dambier wrote: >> Noel Butler wrote: >>> Firstly, I feel this really belongs on mailops not bind list :) >>> secondly... >>> >>> On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 00:00 +0300, Wael Shaheen wrote: >>> >>>> Blocking port 25 is much worse IMHO