Well, I fixed my RBL problem.  According to MAPS, the RBL+ database gives responses 
"in the 127/8 range," which literally means "127.0.0.1-127.255.255.254".  I changed my 
blacklisted IP's to that range, and now it seems to be working.

Whew!

At 12:27 PM -0600 12/12/01, Larry Scott Hastings wrote:
>Aarrgh!
>
>Still no luck.  I've tried .0-.255, .1-.255, .2-.255, .0-.254, .1-.254, .2-.254.  
>Looking through the examples on the SIMS documentation page, I found the form they 
>use is with leading zeros, such as "127.00.00.02"  So, I tried that, still no luck.
>
>What else could I be missing?  I'm beginning to suspect it's something obvious...
>
>
>
>At 10:54 AM -0500 12/12/01, Stefan Jeglinski wrote:
>>>Thanks, I'll try 127.0.0.2-127.0.0.10.
>>>
>>>Any harm in using 127.0.0.1-127.0.0.255?
>>
>>No, except I don't think 255 (or 0) would ever be returned as an A record, so make 
>it 1-254 to be strict. Furthermore, 1 is usually reserved for the loopback address, 
>which isn't really relevant unless it's a UNIX system, I think. So 1 would never be 
>returned as an A record either. I might be corrected by a more knowledgeable lurker. 
>Final answer: 2-254.
>>
>>>BTW, the 127.0.0.2 address is from the SIMS docs (under "Anti-Spam").  The MAPS 
>documentation only says the response will be "in the 127/8 range."
>>
>>The SIMS docs are known to be out of date for 1.8b versions, which I think is one 
>reason for the long-time beta status. The 3rd-party RBL (r)evolution has been a 
>fast-moving target throughout the 1.8 series of releases.
>>
>>
>>Stefan Jeglinski
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