[Exim] www.orbs.org uncontactable?

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Author: Ian D Crorie
Date:  
To: exim-users
Subject: [Exim] www.orbs.org uncontactable?
Sorry this is a little off-topic but I couldn't figure out where else to
go.

At the end of last week I started noticing X-RBL-Warning headers being
added to mail going through one of our mail servers:

    X-RBL-Warning: (relays.orbs.org) Open relay - see http://www.orbs.org/verify.php3?address=137.195.52.200


I've got relays.orbs.org/warn as one of the rbl_domains values. This
was surprising since 137.195.52.200 *isn't* an open relay as far as I
know, and indeed it passes all the tests that mail-abuse.org tries on
it.

My problem is that www.orbs.org has been unreachable from here for at
least 5 days (see below for traceroute): does anyone know if there is
a problem there? Or can you suggest how else I can get taken off the
orbs blacklist?



traceroute to www.orbs.org (202.36.147.16), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 cee-hw-gw (137.195.52.97) 5 ms 3 ms 3 ms
2 hw-cee-gw-cs (137.195.140.90) 3 ms 3 ms 2 ms
3 cxc1.hw.ac.uk (137.195.1.1) 3 ms 3 ms 2 ms
4 eastman-gw.hw.ac.uk (137.195.166.95) 4 ms 3 ms 3 ms
5 scot-x-gw2.eastman.net.uk (194.81.56.125) 8 ms 3 ms 3 ms
6 146.97.250.53 (146.97.250.53) 6 ms 6 ms 8 ms
7 146.97.254.41 (146.97.254.41) 233 ms 25 ms 19 ms
8 146.97.254.61 (146.97.254.61) 15 ms 25 ms 18 ms
9 uk-gw.ja.net (193.63.94.240) 20 ms 17 ms 21 ms
10 209.249.203.117 (209.249.203.117) 317 ms 664 ms 24 ms
11 216.200.254.85 (216.200.254.85) 17 ms 16 ms 16 ms
12 216.200.254.77 (216.200.254.77) 89 ms 89 ms 95 ms
13 216.200.0.22 (216.200.0.22) 176 ms 167 ms 170 ms
14 209.133.31.98 (209.133.31.98) 169 ms !H 168 ms !H 168 ms !H