Renaud Allard wrote: > Marc Perkel wrote: > > >>> >>> >> It's been running for about 7 hours now and I've added about 15% to the >> size of my blacklist. I've been looking up some of these IPs on dnsstuff >> and about 1/2 of them aren't listed anywhere else. I've has 145152 hits >> on it in the las 7 hours. >> >> One think to keep in mind is that it's a low CPU cost to detect spam >> bots as compared to running it through spamassassin which is the more >> common method and I think this is going to be 100% accurate for the >> hosts it collects. And it's going to be faster at detecting spambots. I >> think that if this data were fed from many big sources that spambots >> could be detected much faster. >> >> Also - this is powering my public hostkarma blacklist so it's an early >> warning for those who are using it. I'm getting bots listed far faster >> than spamhaus. >> > > Now, suppose that I am a mail administrator having some problems to > deliver mails to @perkel.com. If I try to telnet from my mailserver to > your listed MX on port 25 to try to diagnose the problem, will you > blacklist my legitimate mailserver because I connected to your fake MX? >
Only if you start with the highest numbered MX records and connect 25 times in a 3 day period. -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
