Charles Cazabon writes:
> Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm tired of ORBZ scanning/spamming qmail.org (they run qmail
> > themselves; you'd think they would know better). Some days I get more
> > spam from ORBZ than all other sources put together.
>
> How often do they re-scan a given host? You'd think they could limit it
> to once a month or something for hosts which have never been shown to
> relay. Have you contacted them?
Yes. They refuse to stop scanning my server. In fact, I suspect that
they ran another scan today from a different IP address just to prove
that they can. Jerks.
> This is fine, provided they don't just list you in their DB for not
> being able to scan you (I don't know if they do this).
I hope they do! The more collateral damage, the less valuable ORBZ
will be.
> Another option would be to use Bruce Guenter's mailfront package. Put
> smtpfront-reject right before qmail-smtpd in your smtpd/run file, and
> put the following line in tcp.smtp:
>
> 205.231.149.25:allow,SMTPREJECT="-ORBZ scans too often; go away"
>
> They will still get an apparently normal SMTP conversation, but their
> commands will be rejected with a permanent (5xx) code and the above
> message.
rblsmtpd does the same thing; only the details differ.
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