On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 03:17:06PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 07:09:57PM +0200,
> Peter van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > That depends on your filtering software. It seems djb's rblsmtpd does not
> > have an option to change this. That sucks. Your choice is hereby reduced
> > (by DJB, not by any people at ORBS) to 'block everything ORBS list for
> > whatever reason, or not.'
>
> While that used to be true, it doesn't seem to be any longer. They have
> some experimental zones for looking up different classes of hosts.
> There is inputs.orbs.org for inputs to relays and outputs.orbs.org for
> inputs plus outputs. There are also some other zones for other categories
> including people blocking them.
You do have a point there, I hadn't thought of actually using it.
> I think I will be able to use them again as I only want to block inputs
> and outputs, since the ORBS seems to catch sites faster than the RSS.
A short test shows that both inputs.orbs.org and outputs.orbs.org list a
certain open relay I know about, but do not list mail.securityfocus.com at
all, which is a good thing. Even with rblsmtpd people have a choice then,
it seems :)
I think this should be enough to close all rants on ORBS. *ducks and takes
cover*
Greetz, Peter.
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