Re: [exim] blackholes.five-ten-sg.com ??

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Author: Giuliano Gavazzi
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To: Marc Sherman
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] blackholes.five-ten-sg.com ??
At 9:18 am -0400 2005/05/03, Marc Sherman wrote:
>Giuliano Gavazzi wrote:
>>>
>>>I am trying to understand all the points that five-ten-sg.com makes
>>> about one (actually two) of my servers' IPs. (I wrote to them, no
>>>reply)
>>>
>>>the blacklist lookup page seems to return a result in contradiction
>>> with the DNS A record for my IP.
>>>
>>>http://www.five-ten-sg.com/blackhole.php?ip=213.92.104.121&Search=Search
>>>
>>>
>>
>>no comments on that?
>
>Ok, I might as well help out, to make up for the tone of my earlier
>message. The operator of that blacklist appears to be a bit of a
>reactionary nutbar. Take a look at this:
>http://www.five-ten-sg.com/sun.telegram.html
>
>He's actually blacklisting a /22 for _telemarketing_ calls
>originating from the owner that stopped 3 years ago. I'm not
>surprised you can't get yourself off of his list.
>
>I'd contact postmaster at the site that's blocking you and recommend
>they stop using that blacklist. It should be easy to compile a
>reasonably convincing dossier on why that blacklist is more trouble
>than it's worth.


thanks, but unfortunately the postmaster is, I presume, some Greg A
Woods. Do you think I can convince him (or that I care to...)?

Thanks again, I was hoping it to be a more serious blacklist so that
I could convince my provider to give us customised rDNS...

Giuliano