Re: Ip::Country::Fast performance (was: blackholes.us?)

2007-12-29 Thread Per Jessen
Matt Kettler wrote: When compared to someone using zone transfers, it's still likely to be marginally faster because the Ip::Country::Fast code and database are both optimized for doing this kind of query very quickly. You're right - I ran some tests, and Ip::Country::Fast is not just

Re: blackholes.us ?

2007-12-18 Thread Per Jessen
Matt Kettler wrote: Per Jessen wrote: It doesn't as far as the rejected mail goes - but it does matter wrt the usefulness of blackholes.us. Which is all I'm asking about. True. Although this is the SpamAssassin mailing list, so, within context of scored systems, the blackholes.us might

Re: blackholes.us ?

2007-12-18 Thread Matt Kettler
Per Jessen wrote: Matt Kettler wrote: Per Jessen wrote: It doesn't as far as the rejected mail goes - but it does matter wrt the usefulness of blackholes.us. Which is all I'm asking about. True. Although this is the SpamAssassin mailing list, so, within context

Re: blackholes.us ?

2007-12-18 Thread Per Jessen
Matt Kettler wrote: Per Jessen wrote: True. Although this is the SpamAssassin mailing list, so, within context of scored systems, the blackholes.us might be of some use. That said, if you're using SA, it's much lighter weight to use the RelayCountries plugin. That seems hard to believe

Re: blackholes.us ?

2007-12-18 Thread Per Jessen
Matt Kettler wrote: That's easily checked - we could run a comparison of any up-to-date geoip database against blackholes.us. True. Well, I've answered my own question. I ran a test of maxmind addresses dated 2007/04/04 against the blackholes.us data dated 2006/05/24. The maxmind database

Re: blackholes.us ?

2007-12-18 Thread mouss
Per Jessen wrote: Matt Kettler wrote: That's easily checked - we could run a comparison of any up-to-date geoip database against blackholes.us. True. Well, I've answered my own question. I ran a test of maxmind addresses dated 2007/04/04 against the blackholes.us data

Re: blackholes.us ?

2007-12-18 Thread Matt Kettler
Per Jessen wrote: Matt Kettler wrote: That's easily checked - we could run a comparison of any up-to-date geoip database against blackholes.us. True. Well, I've answered my own question. I ran a test of maxmind addresses dated 2007/04/04 against the blackholes.us data

blackholes.us ?

2007-12-17 Thread Per Jessen
Does anyone have a current status for blackholes.us ? The rsync'ed data is about 18months old. I had an email rejected earlier today due to a server being blacklisted by germany.blackholes.us /Per Jessen, Zürich

Re: blackholes.us ?

2007-12-17 Thread John D. Hardin
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Per Jessen wrote: Does anyone have a current status for blackholes.us ? The rsync'ed data is about 18months old. I had an email rejected earlier today due to a server being blacklisted by germany.blackholes.us Well, if the MTA is in Germany, the DNSBL isn't

Re: blackholes.us ?

2007-12-17 Thread Per Jessen
John D. Hardin wrote: On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Per Jessen wrote: Does anyone have a current status for blackholes.us ? The rsync'ed data is about 18months old. I had an email rejected earlier today due to a server being blacklisted by germany.blackholes.us Well, if the MTA

Re: blackholes.us ?

2007-12-17 Thread John Rudd
Per Jessen wrote: John D. Hardin wrote: On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Per Jessen wrote: Does anyone have a current status for blackholes.us ? The rsync'ed data is about 18months old. I had an email rejected earlier today due to a server being blacklisted by germany.blackholes.us Well

Re: blackholes.us ?

2007-12-17 Thread Per Jessen
John Rudd wrote: The server is in Germany - anyway, I can't be bothered to deal with a mailadmin who rejects based on blackholes.us ... I just curious given the staleness of the data. If the server is in Germany, then I don't see how staleness of the data matters. It doesn't as far

Re: blackholes.us ?

2007-12-17 Thread Matt Kettler
Per Jessen wrote: John Rudd wrote: The server is in Germany - anyway, I can't be bothered to deal with a mailadmin who rejects based on blackholes.us ... I just curious given the staleness of the data. If the server is in Germany, then I don't see how staleness of the data

RBL and blackholes.us.

2006-08-31 Thread Xueron Nee
Hi All: These days, I found that many outbond messages of my server were blocked by blackholes.us. I checked all my IPs and found so many of them listed in this list. There are many email servers use the list as rbl straitly, Although it says: Blackholes.us does not list spammers, spam

Re: RBL and blackholes.us.

2006-08-31 Thread John Andersen
On Wednesday 30 August 2006 22:15, Xueron Nee wrote: Hi All: These days, I found that many outbond messages of my server were blocked by blackholes.us. I checked all my IPs and found so many of them listed in this list. There are many email servers use the list as rbl straitly, Although

Re: RBL and blackholes.us.

2006-08-31 Thread Xueron Nee
of my server were blocked by blackholes.us. I checked all my IPs and found so many of them listed in this list. There are many email servers use the list as rbl straitly, Although it says: Blackholes.us does not list spammers, spam supporters, or vulernable hosts (open relays/proxies

Re: RBL and blackholes.us.

2006-08-31 Thread Xueron Nee
blocked by china.blackholes.us Any good way to resolve this problem? Thanks! Yet Another Ninja wrote: On 8/31/2006 8:15 AM, Xueron Nee wrote: Hi All: These days, I found that many outbond messages of my server were blocked by blackholes.us. I checked all my IPs and found so many

Re: RBL and blackholes.us.

2006-08-31 Thread Duncan Hill
On Thursday 31 August 2006 08:49, Xueron Nee wrote: I don't know why njabl.org alse use these data. http://njabl.org/cgi-bin/lookup.cgi?query=220.181.13.1 220.181.13.1 is listed in blackholes.njabl.org: China blocked by china.blackholes.us Don't have an IP address in Chinese netspace.

Re: RBL and blackholes.us.

2006-08-31 Thread Matt Kettler
Xueron Nee wrote: Hi All: These days, I found that many outbond messages of my server were blocked by blackholes.us. I checked all my IPs and found so many of them listed in this list. There are many email servers use the list as rbl straitly, Although it says: Blackholes.us does not list

Re: RBL and blackholes.us.

2006-08-31 Thread Xueron Nee
Dear Matt Kettler, Thanks for your kindly help :) Seems that there are too many email servers use these dns based lists incorrectly ... Matt Kettler wrote: Xueron Nee wrote: Hi All: These days, I found that many outbond messages of my server were blocked by blackholes.us. I checked

Re: RBL and blackholes.us.

2006-08-31 Thread John D. Hardin
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Xueron Nee wrote: Seems that there are too many email servers use these dns based lists incorrectly ... Not necessarily. An email admin has to make the conscious decision I don't want to accept any email from China in order to use that RBL in the first place. I did

Re: RBL and blackholes.us.

2006-08-31 Thread Xueron Nee
Dear John D. Hardin, aha, that sounds reasonable :) But the fact is that some server blocked me, but it should accepted. My users complained about this and made me so agonising Thanks for your helo anyway. John D. Hardin wrote: On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Xueron Nee wrote: Seems that there

RE: RBL and blackholes.us.

2006-08-31 Thread Herb Martin
: Re: RBL and blackholes.us. John D. Hardin wrote: On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Xueron Nee wrote: Seems that there are too many email servers use these dns based lists incorrectly ... Not necessarily. An email admin has to make the conscious decision I don't want to accept any email

Re: RBL and blackholes.us.

2006-08-31 Thread John D. Hardin
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Xueron Nee wrote: Dear John D. Hardin, aha, that sounds reasonable :) But the fact is that some server blocked me, but it should accepted. My users complained about this and made me so agonising I suggest you contact the admin of that mailserver and ask them to

What happened to blackholes.us ?

2005-08-30 Thread Eddy Beliveau
For the last couple of days my SA wasn't able to use korea.blackholes.us. I tried to ping it but it seems dead. Anyone knows the reason and if/when it's coming back? Thanks, Eddy

Re: What happened to blackholes.us ?

2005-08-30 Thread Ilan Aisic
I had the same problem with all the blackholes.us domain and complained about it some time ago. I googled the issue and found out that a year ago it was under a DDOS attack (http://lists.blu.org/pipermail/discuss/2004-September/020794.html) perhaps it's been happening again. There should be many

Re: Anything Happened to blackholes.us ?

2005-08-14 Thread Ilan Aisic
I think it's down. I can't browse to their web site and can't even ping to blackholes.us (216.243.118.34). On 8/13/05, mouss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ilan Aisic wrote: For the last couple of days my SA wasn't able to use blackholes.us. I tried to ping it but it seems dead. Anyone knows

Anything Happened to blackholes.us ?

2005-08-13 Thread Ilan Aisic
For the last couple of days my SA wasn't able to use blackholes.us. I tried to ping it but it seems dead. Anyone knows the reason and if/when it's coming back? -- Ilan Aisic Registered Linux User 8124 http://counter.li.org

Re: Anything Happened to blackholes.us ?

2005-08-13 Thread mouss
Ilan Aisic wrote: For the last couple of days my SA wasn't able to use blackholes.us. I tried to ping it but it seems dead. Anyone knows the reason and if/when it's coming back? This is probably a timeout issue. works (slow but works) from here. BTW, the web page says 29 March, 2005. does