The order was to ICANN regarding the domain name. It is a curious
situation though.
Waitman
James Turnbull wrote:
> Matt Sergeant wrote:
>> http://wordtothewise.com/Spamhaus_ICANN_order.html
>>
>> If you're using sbl-xbl, consider temporarily switching to cbl until
>> this blows over.
>
> The
Waitman Gobble wrote:
SRS doesn't appear to me to be that exciting at the moment. It is an
attempt to
encrypt the return path so that legit bounce-backs get passed through.
The
problem is that it appears to me that the encrypted "return path"
doesn't change.
So if you kn
James Craig Burley wrote:
They've already done it to cause C/R to be disabled. Remember last
fall, when C/R was the One Big Solution That Would Solve Everything?
I was having similar arguments with people claiming it was 100%
effective, with 0% false positives, blah blah blah.
SPF doesn't claim
James Craig Burley wrote:
So now, instead of spammers sending emails saying they are from
yahoo.com, they'll send emails saying they are from
some.other.site.in.china, which you might or might not have ever heard
from before, which might or might not be legitimate.
Great, let them do it. I would
Your system comes under a modest form of dDOS attack that triggers so
many SPF lookups that you can no longer process legitimate incoming
email, or in some cases distinguish it (non-forged email) from forged
email.
Do you disable your incoming email entirely? Or do you disable just
your SPF looku
there was too much cheap wire in this country to start
the wireless thing here.
Best Regards
Waitman Gobble
Cosimo Streppone wrote:
Hello qpsmtpd hackers,
I was wondering if an sms plugin would be a
useful/interesting thing to add to qpsmtpd.
By 'sms plugin' I mean a special plugin that
a
James Craig Burley wrote:
Put another way: are you sure you will be able to trust *all* SPF
records published in the .cn domain? The .ru domain? The .biz
domain?
Interesting. However, the record containing all the ingredients of DNS
for a domain (including SPF) is not "published" at one top l
James Craig Burley wrote:
Isn't SPF dependent on DNS? If so, it's not really decentralized, is it?
Hmmm, well I suppose the root nameservers are centralized. These are the
master phone books that tell clients where to go to lookup the number,
etc. However, the DNS record for each domain itsel
Peter J. Holzer wrote:
There are quite a few people who rent a server in a different country
(bandwidth is still a lot cheaper in the US or Germany than in Austria,
for example) or who have registered domains in different countries
because they look "cooler" (e.g. the .to top level domain).
Go
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I pretty much agree with you. But please don't discount the importance
of a thing such as SPF. This thing is a decentralized, self-configured
way to protect yourself from those nasty f's that blow out a bunch of
spam using your domain. Every time I get a litterbox full o
exactly. my next tinker toy with qpsmtpd will be an smtp based
accounting (money) system.
Waitman
Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:
On Jun 1, 2004, at 12:46 PM, Waitman Gobble wrote:
Yesterday I ran across QPSMTPD and decided that it would be much
better to implement my ideas in a plugin. The best thing
Now I have SPF pass/fail override. If my thing "fails" a message, and
there is an SPF record that says it is ok to accept the message, then it
lets it through. If my thing "passes" a message and there is an SPF
record that specifically says that the host is not permitted to send
mail, it fails.
rver running at 1200% load. Normally it does around 10,000 a day
but at that time it was more like 60,000 a day.
Take care
Waitman
Matt Sergeant wrote:
On 1 Jun 2004, at 20:46, Waitman Gobble wrote:
1. Compare the country of the originating IP address to the country
of the "domain"
Yes indeed that would be a tricky one. You have MX records for hosts in
three countries ;-).
My thing now uses the MX record, well one of them (luck of the draw), to
determine host ip location. It now seems better to go a bit farther and
check ALL of the MX records for a matching country. This
Hello,
It isn't perfect. And it is just tinkering. I make sure to put my name
and phone number on the error messages. When I ran the test earlier this
year, one person called. He said he was trying to send me an
advertisement ;-) and that the company was located in New Zealand or
Australia how
iple domains in the past 24 hours. Then I decide whether or not
to block the ip. But this could be automated down the road I suppose.
My plugin uses MySQL / DBI and GeoIP from maxmind.com
Below is my code, etc.
Best Regards
Waitman Gobble
EMK Design
http://emkdesign.com/
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