Re: Arrogant RBL list maintainers

[William Herrin <herrin-nanog () dirtside com>]

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Sven Olaf Kamphuis
<sven () cyberbunker com> wrote:
> We've noticed that Trend Micro "mail-abuse.com" just "assumes" ips are
> dynamic by default,
>
> because they just assume that working, rfc compliant, reverse dns that
> just-so-happens to be automatically generated would indicate dynamic ip
> space.

Sven,

Which is it? By default or because it looks automatically generated?

By default would seem to be a problem. Automatically generated, not so much.

If you haven't made the effort to set up and secure a mail server then
you shouldn't be talking smtp to the hosts mail-abuse.com is used to
protect. If you haven't bothered to set the reverse DNS to match your
server's name then you haven't made the effort, at least not with a
modicum of competence.

Regards,
Bill Herrin

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