nanog mailing list archives
Re: what the heck do i do now?
From: David Ulevitch <davidu () everydns net>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:15:41 -0800
Paul Vixie wrote:
bear with me, this appears to be about DNS but it's actually about e-mail. maps.vix.com has been gone since 1999 or so. mail-abuse.org is the new thing. i've tried just about everything to get traffic toward the old domain name tostop... right now there's a DNAME but it made no real difference.
Paul, Not offering a solution but a bit of an explanation perhaps... From: http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/rblsmtpd.html"If you do not supply any -r options, rblsmtpd tries an RBL source of rbl.maps.vix.com. This will be changed in subsequent versions."
So checking the last released version: /ucspi-tcp-0.88# grep -hn maps.vix.com rblsmtpd.c 193: if (flagwantdefaultrbl) rbl("rbl.maps.vix.com"); Looks like that could be a cause of some of your pain...Not everyone runs rblsmptd on their mailserver, but I know lots of large mail servers that run rblsmptd (qmail).
The fact that the option is the default without being explicit means that at least some folks don't even know maps.vix.com zones are no longer present and the current failure case is not impacting them.
-david ulevitch
Current thread:
- Re: what the heck do i do now?, (continued)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Matthew Kaufman (Jan 31)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Mark Foster (Jan 31)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Chris Owen (Jan 31)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law (Jan 31)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Mark Foster (Jan 31)
- RE: what the heck do i do now? Gregory Taylor (Jan 31)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Paul Vixie (Jan 31)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Jon Lewis (Jan 31)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Ross Hosman (Jan 31)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Trent Lloyd (Jan 31)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Gadi Evron (Jan 31)