Re: spamhaus drop list

[Peter Dambier <peter () peter-dambier de>]

Also I don't like those lists at all

http://www.heise.de/ix/nixspam/dnsbl_en/

Heise do print the very important magazines IX, CT and others in germany.
They depend on their emails coming through.

Kind regards
Peter


Quinn Mahoney wrote:
> Is there a competing droplist, that can be compared against Spamhaus's
> droplist?  That seems like an extraordinary claim, so I'm not satisfied
> with the evidence provided.  Is this not the best droplist?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dean Anderson [mailto:dean () av8 com] 
> Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 6:10 PM
> To: Quinn Mahoney
> Cc: nanog () nanog org
> Subject: Re: spamhaus drop list
>
> I suggest you avoid spamhaus, MAPS, and SORBS. They are really spammers
> in disguise, using blacklists to harm their competition while presumably
> letting their own spam through. We know they have used trust of the
> anti-spam community to list-wash spam-trap addresses.
>
> See http://www.iadl.org/whitehat/whitehat-story.html add the IADL pages
> on Paul Vixie and MAPS.
>
> You might also look at 
> http://www.av8.net/IETF-watch/People/JohnLevine/index.html
> Levine, long head of the Anti-spam Research Group, was also unmasked as
> a spammer.
>
> Fred Baker <fred () cisco com> is on the ISC Board of Trustees, and is a 
> Vixie supportor.
>
>
>               --Dean
>
> On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Quinn Mahoney wrote:
>
> > I'm looking to implement the Spamhaus drop list.
> > http://www.spamhaus.org/drop/index.lasso
> >
> >  
> >
> > On their FAQ they have a script that looks like it grabs the lists
> text
> > file and connects to a given router, and tells you what has changed in
> > the list, and what your router is null routing.  I'm not sure if it
> then
> > removes the null routes if a list entry has been removed.  I haven't
> > found much documentation on the net regarding this.  In the future it
> > looks like you will be able to peer with them and null route traffic
> > from a private AS, which will be routes from the drop list.  Right now
> > though, it looks like you'd have to update an ACL manually for any
> > changes to the list.  Or use this script which null routes the traffic
> > (I guess it's not a big deal getting the syn packets, as long as the
> > mail won't send because of the null route).  I am not sure if this
> > script updates the null routes automatically, or how to use it, I
> can't
> > find to much documentation. 
> >
> >  
> >
> > Any documentation on this script or another script available.  What
> are
> > your suggestions?
> >
> >  
> >
> > thanks
> >
> >  
> >
> >  

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