----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Chan"
On Friday, April 16, 2004, 1:16:58 PM, Chris Santerre wrote:
Can someone contact openrbl.org and get them to add SURBL to the query?
Additional info from http://www.openrbl.org/feedback :
The website openrbl.org:
* is NOT a blocklist or DNSBL * does NOT list domains, only ip-addresses * does NOT block mail or anything else * does NOT remove or retest anything * does NOT secure your mailserver * is NOT operated at the addresses published via DNS those are only dumb proxies to protect against DDOSDomains are what we mostly have, so if they're not listing domains, then being on openrbl.org may not be too useful.
If you type a hostname into the form at www.openrbl.org it gets mapped to the corresponding ip and then the results are returned for the ip (which is no good for surbl).
The following site contains a long list of dnsbl's including a section on domain based lists (RHSBL Lists) http://www.geocities.com/spamresources/filter-dnsbl-lists.htm#domain
It might be worthwhile getting surbl added, providing it's made clear in the notes that it is intended to be queried for body checks not header checks.
However, does anyone think that using proxies to the real SURBL name servers might be useful to us.... (or know how to set that up?)
Spamhaus has probably got one of the best infrastructures to protect against DDOS. Anyone have any contacts? I remember reading that they're under continual DDOS but they never feel it. Also SORBS is another list that has held out against DDOS, IIRC.
John
Jeff C.