Re: SORBS_DUL

2008-03-27 Thread mouss
James Gray wrote: [snip] According to SORBS: Netblock:202.147.75.0/26 (202.147.75.0-202.147.75.63) Record Created:Thu May 11 02:23:32 2006 GMT Record Updated:Thu May 11 02:23:32 2006 GMT Additional Information:[MU] Dynamic/Generic IP/rDNS address, use your ISPs mail server or

Re: SORBS_DUL

2008-03-27 Thread James Gray
of short TTL's. As I have stated, the TTL's were dropped recently and restored back recently but the SORBS listing was made in 2006 - long before I started with this company and long before the recent co-lo move. Why? Can you remove them from the SORBS_DUL? No, then it's not really relevant

Re: SORBS_DUL

2008-03-27 Thread mouss
James Gray wrote: [snip] I didn't ASK FOR HELP! I asked what people's thoughts were on keeping a list like SORBS_DUL in the base/default spamassassin rules. I'm quite capable of fixing the mess I inherited. As long as - it doesn't cause FPs - it helps catch spam - it is free for use

Re: SORBS_DUL

2008-03-27 Thread Matt Kettler
James Gray wrote: Sorbs sux, don't use it. Last time we had this problem they wanted money (and not an insignificant amount either) to remove a listing from their systems. They arbitrarily add addresses to a database the IP's owner can't control, then demand money to remove the listing;

Re: SORBS_DUL

2008-03-27 Thread James Gray
it? Unfortunately, being on SORBS_DUL doesn't impact us directly, and despite the claims that removal is free, th reality is proving to be quite different. Regardless, what matters from a spamassassin perspective is the accuracy of the list. That's the primary criteria that will get a list kicked

RE: SORBS_DUL

2008-03-27 Thread James E. Pratt
Do your own queries and whois lookups...but these address blocks are INCORRECTLY LISTED BY SORBS and they refuse (yes, I've heard from them) to remove them. Apparently because our inbound and outbound MTA's don't use the same addresses! I have no idea what crack-monkey at SORBS wrote

Re: SORBS_DUL

2008-03-27 Thread Justin Mason
James E. Pratt writes: Do your own queries and whois lookups...but these address blocks are INCORRECTLY LISTED BY SORBS and they refuse (yes, I've heard from them) to remove them. Apparently because our inbound and outbound MTA's don't use the same addresses! I have no idea what

Re: SORBS_DUL

2008-03-27 Thread mouss
of that :-/ Embarrassing isn't it? Unfortunately, being on SORBS_DUL doesn't impact us directly, and despite the claims that removal is free, th reality is proving to be quite different. Regardless, what matters from a spamassassin perspective is the accuracy of the list. That's the primary criteria

Re: SORBS_DUL

2008-03-26 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:31:34 am mouss wrote: while you are at it, fix your DNS. your domain has been succesfully submitted to rfci (boguxms): http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/tools/lookup.php?domain=gray.net.au On 26.03.08 11:30, James Gray wrote: Yes - that's one of my personal domains,

Re: SORBS_DUL

2008-03-26 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
both our external mail IP's listed in SORBS_DUL despite the fact the /24 they belong to, and the /24's on either side have NEVER been part of a dynamic pool. what are those IPs and their DNS records? Why? Can you remove them from the SORBS_DUL? No, then it's not really relevant

Re: SORBS_DUL

2008-03-26 Thread Justin Mason
of SORBS DUL, if we were to remove it. But we don't know. If you like, open a bug on our bugzilla suggesting that for the next rescoring run (for 3.3.0), we disable SORBS_DUL and see if accuracy survives ok, and we will try that out. --j.

Re: SORBS_DUL

2008-03-26 Thread mouss
; 49% of RCVD_IN_PBL hits also hit RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL so it's likely that the PBL would compensate entirely for the loss of SORBS DUL, if we were to remove it. But we don't know. If you like, open a bug on our bugzilla suggesting that for the next rescoring run (for 3.3.0), we disable SORBS_DUL

RE: SORBS_DUL

2008-03-26 Thread James E. Pratt
Why? Can you remove them from the SORBS_DUL? No, then it's not really relevant then is it ;) I was trying to help you find the real problem. If you don't want help, stop bitching. I have seen more requests here to stop using some blacklists because of the requestor was unable

Re: SORBS_DUL

2008-03-26 Thread James Gray
mouss wrote: Justin Mason wrote: James Gray writes: On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:09:47 pm D Hill wrote: Now your confusing the subject. The previous response you made was from: From: James Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now you are using: From: James Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] BOTH of those

Re: SORBS_DUL

2008-03-26 Thread James Gray
many e-mail addresses and switch and change between them at will. The SORBS_DUL seems to arbitrarily gobble up blocks that have never been part of dynamic ranges, and never been parked either, then they refuse to de-list them. That is the situation I am faced with currently. See my most recent

SORBS_DUL

2008-03-25 Thread James Gray
for purchased a /19 address block directly from APNIC before anyone else had it (IOW, we were the first users of that block). We now have both our external mail IP's listed in SORBS_DUL despite the fact the /24 they belong to, and the /24's on either side have NEVER been part of a dynamic pool. SORBS

Re: SORBS_DUL

2008-03-25 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
listed in SORBS_DUL despite the fact the /24 they belong to, and the /24's on either side have NEVER been part of a dynamic pool. what are those IPs and their DNS records? SORBS refuse to delist them as our MX records are different to these outgoing mail servers! FFS - we run managed

RE: SORBS_DUL

2008-03-25 Thread Rose, Bobby
for Ips and netblocks to be in the DUL database and I thought it said it was because of published info by the ISP as well as reverse lookup records. Over the years of my use of SORBS_DUL, I've seen maybe a dozen or so .coms that had their static ISP assigned address in SURBS_DUL because of their PTR

Re: SORBS_DUL

2008-03-25 Thread mouss
, the company I work for purchased a /19 address block directly from APNIC before anyone else had it (IOW, we were the first users of that block). We now have both our external mail IP's listed in SORBS_DUL despite the fact the /24 they belong to, and the /24's on either side have NEVER been part

Re: SORBS_DUL

2008-03-25 Thread James Gray
listed in SORBS_DUL despite the fact the /24 they belong to, and the /24's on either side have NEVER been part of a dynamic pool. what are those IPs and their DNS records? Why? Can you remove them from the SORBS_DUL? No, then it's not really relevant then is it ;) SORBS refuse to delist them

Re: SORBS_DUL

2008-03-25 Thread James Gray
in it, good luck getting off it! Case at hand, the company I work for purchased a /19 address block directly from APNIC before anyone else had it (IOW, we were the first users of that block). We now have both our external mail IP's listed in SORBS_DUL despite the fact the /24 they belong

Re: SORBS_DUL

2008-03-25 Thread James Gray
in it, good luck getting off it! Case at hand, the company I work for purchased a /19 address block directly from APNIC before anyone else had it (IOW, we were the first users of that block). We now have both our external mail IP's listed in SORBS_DUL despite the fact the /24 they belong

Re: SORBS_DUL

2008-03-25 Thread D Hill
in SORBS_DUL despite the fact the /24 they belong to, and the /24's on either side have NEVER been part of a dynamic pool. SORBS refuse to delist them as our MX records are different to these outgoing mail servers! FFS - we run managed services for a number of ISP's why the hell would we *want

Re: SORBS_DUL

2008-03-25 Thread D Hill
users of that block). We now have both our external mail IP's listed in SORBS_DUL despite the fact the /24 they belong to, and the /24's on either side have NEVER been part of a dynamic pool. SORBS refuse to delist them as our MX records are different to these outgoing mail servers! FFS - we run

Re: SORBS_DUL

2008-03-25 Thread James Gray
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:51:32 am D Hill wrote: Actually, closer inspection shows your:    ns2.viperplatform.net.au is still reporting back:    smtp.mas.viperplatform.net.au You're assuming gray.net.au and the viperplatform.net.au domains are the same...they're not. If you query MY DNS

Re: SORBS_DUL

2008-03-25 Thread D Hill
had it (IOW, we were the first users of that block). We now have both our external mail IP's listed in SORBS_DUL despite the fact the /24 they belong to, and the /24's on either side have NEVER been part of a dynamic pool. SORBS refuse to delist them as our MX records are different

Re: SORBS_DUL

2008-03-25 Thread mouss
incorrectly listed in it, good luck getting off it! Case at hand, the company I work for purchased a /19 address block directly from APNIC before anyone else had it (IOW, we were the first users of that block). We now have both our external mail IP's listed in SORBS_DUL despite the fact the /24

Re: SORBS_DUL

2008-03-25 Thread James Gray
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:09:47 pm D Hill wrote: Now your confusing the subject. The previous response you made was from: From: James Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now you are using: From: James Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] BOTH of those domains point to an MX that has a CNAME to:

Re: SORBS_DUL

2008-03-25 Thread James Gray
listed in SORBS_DUL despite the fact the /24 they belong to, and the /24's on either side have NEVER been part of a dynamic pool. SORBS refuse to delist them as our MX records are different to these outgoing mail servers! FFS - we run managed services for a number of ISP's why the hell

Re: SORBS_DUL and NJABL_DUL

2005-07-07 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Rick Macdougall wrote: Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Received: from host-212-158-194-14.bulldogdsl.com (HELO phoenix.example.com) (212.158.194.14) by secure.example.name with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 1 Jul 2005 10:00:52 +0100 What SMTP service

Re: SORBS_DUL and NJABL_DUL

2005-07-07 Thread rns . spamassassin . n . semba
Sorry for the slight delay, replies inline: At 01:39 07-07-05, Daryl C. W. O'Shea - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Received: from host-212-158-194-14.bulldogdsl.com (HELO phoenix.example.com) (212.158.194.14) by secure.example.name with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 1 Jul 2005 10:00:52

Re: SORBS_DUL and NJABL_DUL

2005-07-07 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the slight delay, replies inline: At 01:39 07-07-05, Daryl C. W. O'Shea - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Received: from host-212-158-194-14.bulldogdsl.com (HELO phoenix.example.com) (212.158.194.14) by secure.example.name with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted)

Re: SORBS_DUL and NJABL_DUL

2005-07-06 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Received: from host-212-158-194-14.bulldogdsl.com (HELO phoenix.example.com) (212.158.194.14) by secure.example.name with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 1 Jul 2005 10:00:52 +0100 What SMTP service generates this header? phoenix.example.com is a machine

Re: SORBS_DUL and NJABL_DUL

2005-07-06 Thread Rick Macdougall
Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Received: from host-212-158-194-14.bulldogdsl.com (HELO phoenix.example.com) (212.158.194.14) by secure.example.name with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 1 Jul 2005 10:00:52 +0100 What SMTP service generates this header? Hi

Re: SORBS_DUL and NJABL_DUL

2005-07-05 Thread mouss
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just sent myself two test-mails from my home machine, and realised that they were both triggering the RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL and RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL tests, and scoring alarmingly high, but brought down again due to the Bayes tests: -- Complete Mail

SORBS_DUL and NJABL_DUL

2005-07-01 Thread rns . spamassassin . n . semba
Hi, I just sent myself two test-mails from my home machine, and realised that they were both triggering the RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL and RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL tests, and scoring alarmingly high, but brought down again due to the Bayes tests: -- Complete Mail Return-Path: [EMAIL