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Re[2]: relays.osirusoft.com

  • From: Richard Welty
  • Date: Tue Aug 26 21:23:02 2003 
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 20:59:22 -0400 (EDT) Mark Jeftovic <[email protected]> wrote:
> Returning 127.0.0.2 on everything would indeed be an ugly way to bow
> out, but its been done before. Another RBL went out the same way
> previously, can't remember which one (was it orbz?)

it was more complicated than that. orbs went away without a clean shutdown
plan, and one of the secondary DNS operators started answering with
127.0.0.2 to try and get people to stop querying his server.

it worked, although with non-trivial pain attached.

richard
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