At 11:08 AM -0500 12/14/01, Stefan Jeglinski imposed structure on a stream of electrons, yielding: >>>Well, I fixed my RBL problem. According to MAPS, the RBL+ database >>>gives responses "in the 127/8 range," which literally means >>>"127.0.0.1-127.255.255.254". I changed my blacklisted IP's to that >>>range, and now it seems to be working. >> >>You probably want to make that starting number 127.0.0.2. .1 is the >>loopback, and blocking it means that you block any local >>connections that expect 'localhost' to work. > >Bill, thanks for your other response. > >I'm curious though, why they use such a large range of possible >responses (127/8). It's a complete catch-all, but if you ever wanted >to be more "surgical" you might not really be able to do so as long >as you had the MAPS subscription. The example I'm thinking of is >osirusoft, which returns particular A records w.r.t the "type" of >spam rejected, or at least they claim to. MAPS seems to be saying >you could get any response from them in the 127/8 range, and if you >don't put that -entire- range in, it might or might not work. > >Am I missing something here?
Maybe, maybe not. I cannot explain much about MAPS these days without going into hypotheses about the mental stability of some of my former co-workers, but I think that in fact there is a consistent mapping of originating list to DNS response in the RBL+ and that if you are a paying customer they will probably be willing to define that for you. I cannot find any mention of the specifics on the MAPS website, but that's no big surprise: the website has many outdated parts and MAPS has not taken its maintenance seriously for many months. -- Bill Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
