Well, I added dynablock to my RBLs and it's dyn-o-mite! (sorry, I
couldn't resist:)

Now, does someone know how to manually test an address using host or
dig? I tried a few things but I can't get the 128.0.0.2 response.

Clem.

On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 13:18, Michael J. Stango wrote:
> On 10/31/03 9:01 PM, "Clement Ross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > I've never heard of dynablock.easynet.nl. How good is it? What about
> > false positives?
> 
> I first heard of it about a month ago on this list. As I understand it, it
> is nothing but the IP blocks of residential (broadband only?) ISPs, whose
> customers most likely should not be running any kind of SMTP server. "Owned"
> home PCs of clueless people who don't apply Windows patches have become
> pretty much the sole source of spam that actually makes it through to my
> inbox so it took me a fraction of a second to add dynablock to my RBL server
> list. :-)
> 
> As I am the only guy receiving any mail at my domain, I'm not too concerned
> with false positives-- but I do check my logs carefully, and I haven't seen
> any mail whose origin looked legitimate get rejected because of dynablock.
> YMMV.
> 
> ~MJS



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