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Re: Fw: Administrivia: ORBS
From: Paul Vixie <vixie () mibh net>
Date: 14 Jan 2000 18:41:48 -0800
patrick () ianai net (I Am Not An Isp) writes:
What do other open relay lists (e.g. MAPS/RSS) do when they are filtered at the network level?
That's a misleading question. MAPS RSS doesn't probe for relay openness unless spam has been received from the relay in question. OTOH, if there is spam receipt and if the relay doesn't appear to be reachable, a human operator can decide that a firewall might be involved and block the relay in spite of our inability to test it. MAPS RSS never blocks whole address ranges, only /32's. ORBS is apparently blocking whole /16's belonging to Abovenet only because Abovenet refuses to have whole /16's probed for SMTP servers and then having each such server probed for relay openness. (I can't say as I blame them.) -- Paul Vixie <vixie () mibh net> >> But what *IS* the internet? > It's the largest equivalence class in the reflexive transitive > symmetric closure of the relationship "can be reached by an IP > packet from". --Seth Breidbart
Current thread:
- Re: Fw: Administrivia: ORBS, (continued)
- Re: Fw: Administrivia: ORBS Shawn McMahon (Jan 13)
- Re: Fw: Administrivia: ORBS I Am Not An Isp (Jan 13)
- Re: Fw: Administrivia: ORBS Alex P. Rudnev (Jan 13)
- Re: Fw: Administrivia: ORBS Randy Bush (Jan 13)
- Re: Fw: Administrivia: ORBS Greg A. Woods (Jan 13)
- Re: Fw: Administrivia: ORBS Randy Bush (Jan 13)
- Re: Fw: Administrivia: ORBS William Allen Simpson (Jan 13)
- Re: Fw: Administrivia: ORBS Patrick Greenwell (Jan 13)
- Re: Fw: Administrivia: ORBS Edward S. Marshall (Jan 13)
- Re: Fw: Administrivia: ORBS Alex P. Rudnev (Jan 13)
- Re: Fw: Administrivia: ORBS Paul Vixie (Jan 14)
- Re: Fw: Administrivia: ORBS danielle v. (Jan 14)
- Re: Fw: Administrivia: ORBS Paul A Vixie (Jan 14)
- Re: Fw: Administrivia: ORBS Greg A. Woods (Jan 14)
- Re: Fw: Administrivia: ORBS Paul Vixie (Jan 15)
- Re: Fw: Administrivia: ORBS Greg A. Woods (Jan 15)
- Re: Fw: Administrivia: ORBS Paul Vixie (Jan 15)
- Re: Fw: Administrivia: ORBS Greg A. Woods (Jan 19)
- Re: Fw: Administrivia: ORBS J.D. Falk (Jan 19)
- Re: Fw: Administrivia: ORBS scott w (Jan 19)
- Re: Fw: Administrivia: ORBS Barry Shein (Jan 18)