On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 12:55:57PM -0400, Hubbard, David wrote:
> I've been reading more of the archives about this
> rblsmtpd issue lately and I think what has happened
> is that the relays.mail-abuse.org DNS no longer
> has the TXT entries in it that rblsmtpd looks for.
> Did this spam that got through your server come
> from a host in the open-relays database or the
> maps? Does anyone know if the other services,
> not relays.mail-abuse.org, have made the same change
> or are going to? If they did, it would prevent
> rblsmtpd from working with them too correct? Do you
> think DJB would make a new rblsmtpd release to make it
> work with these new no-TXT maps DNS servers?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave
Correct. I did some research too (should have before posting :-/).
rblsmtpd works by rejecting connections from servers with TXT records at
the various "RBLs." On Aug 8th, RSS stopped using TXT records entirely.
All along there has also been an A record for each listed address, so
you can still use that, and in fact, rblcheck uses the A records for its
check.
I applied the patch at
http://www.cqc.com/~pacman/projects/rblsmtpd-rss/
posted by pacman Aug 9th I believe. This patch allows you to tell
rblsmtpd to use A records for certain RBLs. It seems to be working just
fine.
Odd that this issue has been so quiet. Are there really so few people
using rblsmtpd?
jon
