sorry, not spamhaus, spamblock. -----Original Message----- From: Richard S. Crawford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 9:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [vox-tech] smtp question - blocked ip
Hm, my messages seem to be coming through all right... At 09:49 AM 1/3/2003, you wrote: >Yes well, it's enough to prevent Pete from emailing out. I like >DNSStuff.com, it's a great resource. > >Spamhaus blocked Pacbell DSL ip addresses. Evidently they felt that PacBell >has been ignoring there complaints regarding a few persistent spammers. If I >thought I could get away with it here at work, I would probably block PacBell >DSL too. > >I got 100,000 SPAM messages through my system at work over New Years Day from >a PacBell dsl ip address. > >I average 150,000-200,000 a week from various open relays abroad, but the guy >screws up periodically and leaves enough info to trace him to a PacBell ip >address on occasion. It changes so he's probably pppoe. As we add reduncy >to entry points on our email system and expand the scope to the Enterprise, I >will prbably see a dramatic increase. The sad part is, a lot of it is to non >existant email addresses. SO not only is the spammer irratating me, he is >ripping off his customer. > ><sigh> >-sp > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Rod Roark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 9:35 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [vox-tech] smtp question - blocked ip > > >They blacklisted Pac Bell? Now there's a nice example of >spitting into the wind. :-) > >-- Rod > http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ > >On Friday 03 January 2003 09:15 am, Steven Peck wrote: > > The reciever is setup to use a block list by ip address. So, lookup your > > MX and/or IP Address in a lookup site. > > For all potential email block/spam problems, I turn to > > www.dnsstuff.com > > > > The MX for dirac.org is 'mail.dirac.org' > > The IP is 64.164.47.8' > > > > Looking up the IP Address at DNSStuff gets you > > http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ip4r.ch?ip=64.164.47.8 > > > > Your IP is listed in spambag.org's email blocklist > > http://www.spambag.org/cgi-bin/spambag?mailfrom=pacbell > > > > Pete, you spammer you. :) j/k > > Best of luck getting off of it seeing as it is a PacBell IP netblock. > > Your best hope is if 'netease.net' can whitelist your ip address. > > > > -sp > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Peter Jay Salzman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 8:51 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [vox-tech] smtp question - blocked ip > > > > > > can someone give me a more useful description of the problem here? who > > is blocking whom? it sounds like my MTA rejected sending email to > > netease, but ORDB and tcp wrappers for exim (which i use) should block > > incoming mail from spammers, not outgoing mail to spammers. > > > > at least, i'm pretty sure about that... > > > > pete > > > > sorry for terse message, but i'm still on a 14.4..... > > > > ----- Forwarded message from Mail Delivery System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ----- > > > > From: Mail Delivery System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender > > Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 08:42:07 -0800 > > > > This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim). > > > > A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its > > recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > host mx02.netease.net [64.7.232.14]: 554 > > <adsl-64-164-47-8.dsl.scrm01.pacbell.net[64.164.47.8]>: > > Client host rejected: ACL IP Blocked; (5.7.1) Policy Violation 1205 > >_______________________________________________ >vox-tech mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech >_______________________________________________ >vox-tech mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech Sliante, Richard S. Crawford http://www.mossroot.com AIM: Buffalo2K ICQ: 11646404 Y!: rscrawford MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It is only with the heart that we see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." --Antoine de Saint Exupéry "Push the button, Max!" _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech