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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Now the idiots at ORBS are probing random dial-ups
Chris Adams wrote: > As for ORBS: I have had several customers with open relays lately (which > they've shut as soon as we notified them). A couple of them used our > primary mail server as a smarthost, so ORBS listed it as well. In each > case, ORBS failed to notify us of the listing at all. We only found out > when our customers had mail blocked at servers using ORBS. I got notified when ORBS found one of the servers under my care to be open. Ah. Here's the copy of the notification that I got. They send to [email protected] and [email protected] That.Is.Found.To.Be.Open[0]. Question is, is someone answering [email protected]? [0] My particular problem was with auth2.acclink.com. The notification went to [email protected] and [email protected] I believe ORBS uses rDNS to get the hostname of the mail server, but you'd have to ask Alan Brown to be sure. -- North Shore Technologies, Cleveland, OH http://NorthShoreTechnologies.net Steve Sobol, BOFH - President, Chief Website Architect and Janitor Linux Instructor, PC/LAN Program, Natl. Institute of Technology, Akron, OH [email protected] - 888.480.4NET - 216.619.2NET
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