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Re: [-0.7] Re: Problems with Osirusoft List

2003-10-13 23:00:50
At 01:14 2003-10-14 -0400, Charles Gregory wrote:

But I am concerned about those people like me with a default RH9

I try not to be too concerned with people who decided to go with a RH installation. They're grownups, even if their choice of OS wasn't a good one.

<g>

*positive* result on the test. How is that possible if the list isn't
there?

Well, for a while there, the DNS zone still existed, and it matched wildcard for *WORLD*. AFAIK, it still does, but at last check, there were several key backbone providers who were blocking traffic to and from the domain just to thwart lookups against it. Obviously, your provider does not - do a whois of the domain and try to ping any of the listed DNS servers - if you can reach them, you're capable of doing lookups that many others cannot.

Whether that's a good thing or not is another matter - frankly, I'm none too keen with backbone providers screwing with traffic, but this isn't the first time it's happened - when an abovenet mail server ended up on a DNSBL (legitimatley), above.net opted to block all traffic to the entire subnet where the DNSBL was hosted.

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