Hello Matthias, As a operator of a RBL I am way to familiar with this. We also see people still looking up domains on zones we phased out over 10 years ago. So not surprised at all…
But if people are seeing things listed they should not I am reluctant saying it’s wrong to do that. Thanks, Raymond Dijkxhoorn > Op 13 mei 2021 om 00:12 heeft Matthias Leisi <matth...@leisi.net> het > volgende geschreven: > > >> >> I would suggest to follow rfc’s. So return 127.0.0.1 for example. Or don’t >> answer at all. Deliberate giving ‘yes to any request’ is something I can >> understand you would do but it’s plain wrong. > > We do follow RFCs, and have a number of methods (not returning an answer, > returning REFUSED etc). But you’d be surprised how long some admins do not > act… In these cases (ie consistent query volumes way above the limits, and > prolonged times of inactio), returning a „hi“ result is the last option. This > has been the case for maybe 10 or so years. > > — Matthias >
