http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3631





------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED]  2004-07-28 11:14 -------
Subject: Re:  [review] update reserved IP list

> (a) the reason 192.168, 10, and 172.16 et al are at the top of the old
> one is because they are by far the most frequently-encountered
> reserved ranges; it adds a little efficiency.  (I don't know if that
> actually helps though.)

These should be put into a separate regular expression, actually.  I'll
append my recent posting to spamassassin-dev which seems to have been
missed by everyone.
 
> (b) I don't actually see any use of CYMRU as a source, going by the
> comments.

It's useful as a second check, also their changelog is very useful for
making updates and changes.
 
> (c) I would suggest not listing the "growth edges" of the existing
> registrar spaces, such as 071 -- since once the ARIN space from
> 063-070 is exhausted, IANA will start registering networks in that /8.

IANA has already done non-sequential allocations and re-reservations.  I
don't really buy the "growth edges" argument.  Either list them or
don't.

> This rev of the code could still be in use at several sites by that
> stage, and it'd mean they'd miss DNSBL hits for relays in those
> networks; this has happened before.  So what I did last time was to
> allow lookups for hosts in 071 and similar "growth edge" areas,
> assuming they may be allocated in the code's lifetime.

I don't think we should be listing <reserved but not allocated> ranges
at all.  The benefit is minor and the downside is generally larger than
the benefit.

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From: Daniel Quinlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IP_IN_RESERVED_RANGE
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 23:03:39 -0700
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

I think this constant is trying to do three things (and one of them it
shouldn't be doing).

1. remove private use networks
2. remove reserved networks
3. remove multicast networks

I think there's little reason for us to maintain a list of reserved
networks.  It just means when Asia or whereever gets a new class A that
we don't do DNSBL queries.

Private use and multicast should be separated into two regular
expressions.  Multicast is a sure-fire spam sign.  Private use is okay
and we should remove those as we do now.

Daniel

-- 
Daniel Quinlan
http://www.pathname.com/~quinlan/
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