We're having issues witht them periodically blocking our access to the site - which has happened since we have a failure.
I have a version of the lists there now, but I think it may actually be time to retire that example from spamd.conf - those lists just aren't as useful as they were in past years. 2009/11/24 Rod Whitworth <glis...@witworx.com>: > On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:55:49 -0800, Jason LaRiviere wrote: > >>Hello all, >> >>Willing to suffer scorn if I've missed a commit message or previous post on >>the matter, but I've been getting a 404 for these two lists since >>approximately the `unplanned maintenance' www event of a few weeks ago. Shall >>I comment them out of spamd.conf, or will they make their return? >> >>Regards, >>Jason. >> > > A long long time ago we had a similar problem. My solution has stayed > in place ever since. > Cobbled up Q&D but it works. > script = okean: > #!/bin/sh > ftp -o /var/db/china.txt http://www.okean.com/chinacidr.txt > ftp -o /var/db/korea.txt http://www.okean.com/koreacidr.txt > > crontab entry for okean: > 26 14 * * * /root/bin/okean > > part of spamd.conf: > 8>< snip-------------------------------------------------------------- > # Mirrored from http://www.okean.com/chinacidr.txt > china:\ > :black:\ > :msg="SPAM. Your address %A appears to be from China\n\ > See http://www.okean.com/asianspamblocks.html for more > details":\ > :method=file:\ > :file=/var/db/china.txt: > > # Mirrored from http://www.okean.com/koreacidr.txt > korea:\ > :black:\ > :msg="SPAM. Your address %A appears to be from Korea\n\ > See http://www.okean.com/asianspamblocks.html for more > details":\ > :method=file:\ > :file=/var/db/korea.txt: > 8><end snip------------- > > No more problems since. > Hints: pick some oddball time for the cronjob, once a day is fine as > changes are rare. > I use a similar technique for nixspam too. > > Good enough for you? > You're welcome! > > I think that the people running that site don't realise that it is > better for OpenBSD to mirror it than to have us all hitting it daily > but you just can't get through to some people..... > > > > *** NOTE *** Please DO NOT CC me. I <am> subscribed to the list. > Mail to the sender address that does not originate at the list server is tarpitted. The reply-to: address is provided for those who feel compelled to reply off list. Thankyou. > > Rod/ > --- > This life is not the real thing. > It is not even in Beta. > If it was, then OpenBSD would already have a man page for it.
