Also I don't like those lists at all http://www.heise.de/ix/nixspam/dnsbl_en/
Heise do print the very important magazines IX, CT and others in germany. They depend on their emails coming through. Kind regards Peter Quinn Mahoney wrote: > Is there a competing droplist, that can be compared against Spamhaus's > droplist? That seems like an extraordinary claim, so I'm not satisfied > with the evidence provided. Is this not the best droplist? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dean Anderson [mailto:d...@av8.com] > Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 6:10 PM > To: Quinn Mahoney > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: spamhaus drop list > > I suggest you avoid spamhaus, MAPS, and SORBS. They are really spammers > in disguise, using blacklists to harm their competition while presumably > letting their own spam through. We know they have used trust of the > anti-spam community to list-wash spam-trap addresses. > > See http://www.iadl.org/whitehat/whitehat-story.html add the IADL pages > on Paul Vixie and MAPS. > > You might also look at > http://www.av8.net/IETF-watch/People/JohnLevine/index.html > Levine, long head of the Anti-spam Research Group, was also unmasked as > a spammer. > > Fred Baker <f...@cisco.com> is on the ISC Board of Trustees, and is a > Vixie supportor. > > > --Dean > > On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Quinn Mahoney wrote: > >> I'm looking to implement the Spamhaus drop list. >> http://www.spamhaus.org/drop/index.lasso >> >> >> >> On their FAQ they have a script that looks like it grabs the lists > text >> file and connects to a given router, and tells you what has changed in >> the list, and what your router is null routing. I'm not sure if it > then >> removes the null routes if a list entry has been removed. I haven't >> found much documentation on the net regarding this. In the future it >> looks like you will be able to peer with them and null route traffic >> from a private AS, which will be routes from the drop list. Right now >> though, it looks like you'd have to update an ACL manually for any >> changes to the list. Or use this script which null routes the traffic >> (I guess it's not a big deal getting the syn packets, as long as the >> mail won't send because of the null route). I am not sure if this >> script updates the null routes automatically, or how to use it, I > can't >> find to much documentation. >> >> >> >> Any documentation on this script or another script available. What > are >> your suggestions? >> >> >> >> thanks >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > -- Peter and Karin Dambier Cesidian Root - Radice Cesidiana Rimbacher Strasse 16 D-69509 Moerlenbach-Bonsweiher +49(6209)795-816 (Telekom) +49(6252)750-308 (VoIP: sipgate.de) mail: pe...@peter-dambier.de http://www.peter-dambier.de/ http://iason.site.voila.fr/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/iason/ ULA= fd80:4ce1:c66a::/48