Re: RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP Question

2010-01-21 Thread Res
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Mike Cardwell wrote: RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP is currently ranking 289th in my SpamAssassin rule statistics having triggered on only 79 out of the last 66657 emails. Is such an infrequently triggering rule worth having a dedicated DNS based lookup system? This is likely because i

Re: RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP Question

2010-01-21 Thread Mike Cardwell
On 21/01/2010 11:59, Per Jessen wrote: DNS checks would be overkill for a list that doesn't change that often. Overkill yes, but "affordable", especially with results being cached. Personally I would favor DNS for data that _does_ change, even if only very rarely. It just doesn't make sense.

Re: RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP Question

2010-01-21 Thread Henrik K
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:59:49PM +0100, Per Jessen wrote: > Henrik K wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:59:25AM +0100, Per Jessen wrote: > >> Henrik K wrote: > >> > >> > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 04:16:29PM +1000, Res wrote: > >> >> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Henrik K wrote: > >> >> > >> >>

Re: RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP Question

2010-01-21 Thread Per Jessen
Henrik K wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:59:25AM +0100, Per Jessen wrote: >> Henrik K wrote: >> >> > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 04:16:29PM +1000, Res wrote: >> >> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Henrik K wrote: >> >> >> >> (?:[01257]|(?!127.0.0.)127|22[3-9]|2[3-9]\d|[12]\d{3,} >> [3-9]\d\d+)\.\

Re: RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP Question

2010-01-21 Thread Henrik K
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:59:25AM +0100, Per Jessen wrote: > Henrik K wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 04:16:29PM +1000, Res wrote: > >> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Henrik K wrote: > >> > >> (?:[01257]|(?!127.0.0.)127|22[3-9]|2[3-9]\d|[12]\d{3,} > [3-9]\d\d+)\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+ > > > >>>

Re: RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP Question

2010-01-21 Thread Per Jessen
Henrik K wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 04:16:29PM +1000, Res wrote: >> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Henrik K wrote: >> >> (?:[01257]|(?!127.0.0.)127|22[3-9]|2[3-9]\d|[12]\d{3,} [3-9]\d\d+)\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+ > > Thats crazy! It's wrong since 1/8 is now allocated, it also does > not

Re: RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP Question

2010-01-19 Thread Res
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Henrik K wrote: DNS checks would be overkill for a list that doesn't change that often. http://www.team-cymru.org/Services/Bogons/ has good info, Yes agreed, we have used Robs templates for a long time :) -- Res "What does Windows have that Linux doesn't?" - One hell o

Re: RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP Question

2010-01-19 Thread Henrik K
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 04:16:29PM +1000, Res wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Henrik K wrote: > > > (?:[01257]|(?!127.0.0.)127|22[3-9]|2[3-9]\d|[12]\d{3,}|[3-9]\d\d+)\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+ Thats crazy! It's wrong since 1/8 is now allocated, it also does not detect most other

Re: RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP Question

2010-01-19 Thread Res
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Henrik K wrote: (?:[01257]|(?!127.0.0.)127|22[3-9]|2[3-9]\d|[12]\d{3,}|[3-9]\d\d+)\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+ Thats crazy! It's wrong since 1/8 is now allocated, it also does not detect most other bogon ranges, What is the point of this... Another rule I now need to disable.

Re: RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP Question

2010-01-19 Thread Henrik K
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 08:00:46PM -0800, John Hardin wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Res wrote: > >> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, RW wrote: >> >>> It appears to be just a regular expression: >> >>> sub check_for_illegal_ip { >>> my ($self, $pms) = @_; >>> >>> foreach my $rcvd ( @{$pms->{relays_untrust

Re: RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP Question

2010-01-19 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Res wrote: On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, RW wrote: It appears to be just a regular expression: sub check_for_illegal_ip { my ($self, $pms) = @_; foreach my $rcvd ( @{$pms->{relays_untrusted}} ) { # (note this might miss some hits if the Received.pm skips any invalid

Re: RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP Question

2010-01-19 Thread Res
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, RW wrote: It appears to be just a regular expression: sub check_for_illegal_ip { my ($self, $pms) = @_; foreach my $rcvd ( @{$pms->{relays_untrusted}} ) { # (note this might miss some hits if the Received.pm skips any invalid IPs) foreach my $check ( $rcvd->{ip},

Re: RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP Question

2010-01-19 Thread RW
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:19:14 +1000 (EST) Res wrote: > Greetings, > > Can anyone tell me how the bogon list in this rule is updated? > Does it query a live bogon DNS server? The wiki does not explain or > say much at all about it. > > Thanks > It appears to be just a regular expression: sub c

RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP Question

2010-01-19 Thread Res
Greetings, Can anyone tell me how the bogon list in this rule is updated? Does it query a live bogon DNS server? The wiki does not explain or say much at all about it. Thanks -- Res "What does Windows have that Linux doesn't?" - One hell of a lot of bugs!

Re: RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP question(s)

2008-08-13 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 03:33:56PM -0700, SM wrote: They are not the only ones using these IP addresses for internal use. It will be interesting to see what happens when these IP addresses are assigned. Reminds me of a time where I ran into a compa

Re: RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP question(s)

2008-08-13 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 03:33:56PM -0700, SM wrote: > They are not the only ones using these IP addresses for internal > use. It will be interesting to see what happens when these IP > addresses are assigned. Reminds me of a time where I ran into a company who internally were using long-time pu

Re: RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP question(s)

2008-08-13 Thread SM
At 14:37 13-08-2008, jdow wrote: What the heck is Consumers Energy doing using a reserved IP address? They are not the only ones using these IP addresses for internal use. It will be interesting to see what happens when these IP addresses are assigned. Regards, -sm

Re: RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP question(s)

2008-08-13 Thread jdow
From: "Bowie Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, 2008, August 13 12:58 Brian Martinez wrote: I'm guessing the IP address in question is: 1.226.208.65 While it certainly is not within a range I see all that often, I am assured by our hostmaster that it is legit. Another one I've see

Re: RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP question(s)

2008-08-13 Thread Brian Martinez
Folks, Thanks for your responses thus-far. It seems that my head is floating in the clouds today and I appear to be dreaming half of this situation. A couple of months ago, as I said, our network admin pointed out this problem to me. I can no longer find the email he sent me where he stated

RE: RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP question(s)

2008-08-13 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
ts on searching ARIN's WHOIS database. > -Original Message- > From: Brian Martinez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 9:22 PM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP question(s) > > Howdy folks, > > I'm expe

RE: RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP question(s)

2008-08-13 Thread Bowie Bailey
Brian Martinez wrote: > > I'm guessing the IP address in question is: 1.226.208.65 > > While it certainly is not within a range I see all that often, I am > assured by our hostmaster that it is legit. Another one I've seen is > 1.226.208.61 As far as I can tell, that IP address is invalid. It

RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP question(s)

2008-08-13 Thread Brian Martinez
Howdy folks, I'm experiencing a problem with some people (myself included) who are not properly receiving their Consumer's Energy bills. Rather, the bills are being marked as spam and sent into their SPAM folders. One of the two things being marked by the Spam-Report are RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP I