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Re: spamblocker turns into mail denial of service
From: Chris Fuhrman <chris.fuhrman () tfcci com>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 12:45:29 -0500
Howdy, The Monkeys.com blacklist was officially retired 9/22 due to repeated DDoS attacks on it's main servers. Please see http://www.dnsbl.info/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=12 for the official closing announcement from Ron Guilmette. Cheers! On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 11:21, Dana Hudes wrote:
At some point in the last 24 hours the dns-based blackhole list proxies.relays.monkies.com turned into a deny-all-mail: the A record for the blackhole list is now 127.0.0.2 which means all mail is rejected. Anyone who knows anyone who was using this should immediately remove it. I do not know why the folks at infinite monkeys would do this nasty thing, perhaps it was done by a spammer hacking in. Certainly it points out that all such services should be using DNSSEC and that perhaps that's not enough if the name server is hacked.
-- Chris Fuhrman | Twenty First Century Communications chris.fuhrman () tfcci com | Senior Software Engineer (W) 614-442-1215 x271 | (F) 614-442-5662 | PGP/GPG Public Key Available on Request
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