Re: Public Blacklists?

2005-12-22 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Aaron Boyles wrote on Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:39:07 -0500: This sounds along the lines of what I'm looking for. Is there an RFC on this protocol anywhere, and a list of some free servers hosting the information? In addition to all technical that has been said in this thread and as I see from

RE: Public Blacklists?

2005-12-22 Thread SM
Hi Aaron, At 13:14 21-12-2005, Aaron Boyles wrote: understanding is that I should shell out to nslookup 70.221.33.80.sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org and nab the response. However, when I attempt this, I always get the same thing in response: Can't find server name for address 10.0.0.1 which is our

RE: Public Blacklists?

2005-12-22 Thread Bowie Bailey
Aaron Boyles wrote: A number of people have mentioned that... But what is it? It's not a command my PC recognizes. From: SM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] nslookup is broken. :-) Use dig instead. Dig is a very nice dns lookup program that is fairly standard now on Linux. Windows still does

RE: Public Blacklists?

2005-12-22 Thread Steven Manross
: RE: Public Blacklists? A number of people have mentioned that... But what is it? It's not a command my PC recognizes. -Aaron -Original Message- From: SM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 1:09 PM To: SpamAssassin Subject: RE: Public Blacklists? Hi Aaron

RE: Public Blacklists?

2005-12-22 Thread Aaron Boyles
22, 2005 1:24 PM To: SpamAssassin Subject: RE: Public Blacklists? Aaron Boyles wrote: A number of people have mentioned that... But what is it? It's not a command my PC recognizes. From: SM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] nslookup is broken. :-) Use dig instead. Dig is a very nice dns

RE: Public Blacklists?

2005-12-22 Thread SM
Hi Aaron, At 10:14 22-12-2005, Aaron Boyles wrote: A number of people have mentioned that... But what is it? It's not a command my PC recognizes. It's not part of Windows. It comes with BIND. You can download a Win32 version at ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/contrib/ntbind-9.3.2/BIND9.3.2.zip

RE: Public Blacklists?

2005-12-22 Thread Steven Manross
, 2005 12:01 PM To: SpamAssassin Subject: RE: Public Blacklists? Hrm. I tried it, but it crapped out. :/ I used our DCs (2K3 servers) which are our DNS servers in the .conf file, but still no dice. It times out saying no servers could be reached. Any ideas? -Original Message- From

RE: Public Blacklists?

2005-12-22 Thread Aaron Boyles
To: Aaron Boyles; SpamAssassin Subject: RE: Public Blacklists? IPs or DNS names? It wants Ips in the resolve.conf. (the version that comes with BIND is tested and works on Windows). Earlier versions crapped out on Windows with various messages. Steven -Original Message- From: Aaron

RE: Public Blacklists?

2005-12-22 Thread Aaron Boyles
:12 PM To: Aaron Boyles; SpamAssassin Subject: RE: Public Blacklists? IPs or DNS names? It wants Ips in the resolve.conf. (the version that comes with BIND is tested and works on Windows). Earlier versions crapped out on Windows with various messages. Steven -Original Message- From

RE: Public Blacklists?

2005-12-22 Thread SM
Hi Aaron, At 11:24 22-12-2005, Aaron Boyles wrote: I assumed that typing: dig www.yahoo.com At the command prompt should have SOMETHING result. Instead, I get the time out. dig @10.0.0.1 www.yahoo.com where 10.0.0.1 is the IP address of your name server. Regards, -sm

RE: Public Blacklists?

2005-12-22 Thread Aaron Boyles
with any app using it? And what's the air-speed velocity of a laden swallow? -Aaron -Original Message- From: SM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 3:05 PM To: SpamAssassin Subject: RE: Public Blacklists? Hi Aaron, At 11:24 22-12-2005, Aaron Boyles wrote: I

RE: Public Blacklists?

2005-12-22 Thread Steven Manross
: RE: Public Blacklists? :o That seems to have worked! So the next question is, how would the RBL lookup work? And why do they have us put the nameservers in the .conf file if we're going to reference them in the dig command? And how many of these files that came with the dig.exe are actually

[Heading into OT land] Re: Public Blacklists?

2005-12-22 Thread Jim Maul
Aaron Boyles wrote: :o That seems to have worked! So the next question is, how would the RBL lookup work? And why do they have us put the nameservers in the .conf file if we're going to reference them in the dig command? And how many of these files that came with the dig.exe are actually

RE: Public Blacklists?

2005-12-22 Thread Aaron Boyles
Not to me, unfortunately... I'm just a contractor... :D -Original Message- From: Dallas L. Engelken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 3:33 PM To: SpamAssassin Subject: RE: Public Blacklists? -Original Message- From: Aaron Boyles [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [Heading into OT land] Re: Public Blacklists?

2005-12-22 Thread Aaron Boyles
Well... I don't know that! Ahh..! -Original Message- From: Jim Maul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 4:01 PM To: Aaron Boyles Cc: SpamAssassin Subject: [Heading into OT land] Re: Public Blacklists? Aaron Boyles wrote: :o That seems

RE: Public Blacklists?

2005-12-22 Thread Aaron Boyles
Ah, excellent! Thanks for all your help! -Aaron -Original Message- From: SM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 4:53 PM To: SpamAssassin Subject: RE: Public Blacklists? Hi Aaron, At 12:10 22-12-2005, Aaron Boyles wrote: :o That seems to have worked! So

Re: Public Blacklists?

2005-12-21 Thread Matt Kettler
Aaron Boyles wrote: On a side note, is anyone very familiar with any protocols involving public blacklists? I'm looking for the ability to simply toss an IP at a site somewhere, and get a simple 'yes/no' response as to whether or not it's a spam IP? All the common blacklists use DNS lookups,

Re: Public Blacklists?

2005-12-21 Thread List Mail User
... On a side note, is anyone very familiar with any protocols involving public blacklists? I'm looking for the ability to simply toss an IP at a site somewhere, and get a simple 'yes/no' response as to whether or not it's a spam IP? -Aaron Boyles ITC Applications Programmer ... Far

RE: Public Blacklists?

2005-12-21 Thread Aaron Boyles
21, 2005 3:26 PM To: Aaron Boyles Cc: SpamAssassin Subject: Re: Public Blacklists? Aaron Boyles wrote: On a side note, is anyone very familiar with any protocols involving public blacklists? I'm looking for the ability to simply toss an IP at a site somewhere, and get a simple 'yes

Re: Public Blacklists?

2005-12-21 Thread Matt Kettler
Aaron Boyles wrote: This sounds along the lines of what I'm looking for. Is there an RFC on this protocol anywhere, and a list of some free servers hosting the information? As for an RFC, none that I know of. The best you might get would be the sendmail docs, because it is sendmail's

RE: Public Blacklists?

2005-12-21 Thread Aaron Boyles
Programmer -Original Message- From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 4:02 PM To: Aaron Boyles Cc: SpamAssassin Subject: Re: Public Blacklists? Aaron Boyles wrote: This sounds along the lines of what I'm looking for. Is there an RFC

Re: Public Blacklists?

2005-12-21 Thread Justin Mason
Cc: SpamAssassin Subject: Re: Public Blacklists? Aaron Boyles wrote: On a side note, is anyone very familiar with any protocols involving public blacklists? I'm looking for the ability to simply toss an IP at a site somewhere, and get a simple 'yes/no' response as to whether

Re: Public Blacklists?

2005-12-21 Thread Matt Kettler
Aaron Boyles wrote: Thus, if I wanted to check IP 80.22.221.70, my understanding is that I should shell out to nslookup 70.221.33.80.sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org and nab the response. Yes, you should be able to, although on many systems the preferred commands are host and dig. However, when I

RE: Public Blacklists?

2005-12-21 Thread Aaron Boyles
there's another option? -Aaron -Original Message- From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 4:34 PM To: Aaron Boyles Cc: SpamAssassin Subject: Re: Public Blacklists? Aaron Boyles wrote: Thus, if I wanted to check IP 80.22.221.70, my understanding

Re: Public Blacklists?

2005-12-21 Thread Matt Kettler
Aaron Boyles wrote: Actually, no, I can't. I get that message with Yahoo as well. I vaguely remember running into this issue before, and it having something to do with using Windows 2K3 server behind NAT. As I recall at the time, it was decided that the 'solution' was far more work than it

Re: Public Blacklists?

2005-12-21 Thread Mike Jackson
Aaron Boyles wrote: Actually, no, I can't. I get that message with Yahoo as well. I vaguely remember running into this issue before, and it having something to do with using Windows 2K3 server behind NAT. As I recall at the time, it was decided that the 'solution' was far more work than it

RE: Public Blacklists?

2005-12-21 Thread Aaron Boyles
My guess would be yes, though I don't have any DNS servers handy to do an external check on. -Aaron -Original Message- From: Mike Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 4:59 PM To: SpamAssassin Subject: Re: Public Blacklists? Aaron Boyles wrote

RE: Public Blacklists?

2005-12-21 Thread Damrose, Mark
From: Aaron Boyles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] attempt this, I always get the same thing in response: Can't find server name for address 10.0.0.1 which is our gateway. It's a bug in nslookup. nslookup expects the DNS server to be authoritive for its own reverse address and blows up if