>>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. > >You probably want to make that starting number 127.0.0.2. .1 is the >loopback, and blocking it means that you block any local connections >that expect 'localhost' to work.
Bill, thanks for your other response. I'm curious though, why they use such a large range of possible responses (127/8). It's a complete catch-all, but if you ever wanted to be more "surgical" you might not really be able to do so as long as you had the MAPS subscription. The example I'm thinking of is osirusoft, which returns particular A records w.r.t the "type" of spam rejected, or at least they claim to. MAPS seems to be saying you could get any response from them in the 127/8 range, and if you don't put that -entire- range in, it might or might not work. Am I missing something here? Stefan Jeglinski ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
