Hi, On 16 Sep 2003 01:57:58 -0700 Daniel Quinlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Kristian Koehntopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > How does this affect SpamAssassin and if it does, what are we doing > > about this? > > It has a very negative effect on some tests, particularly > NO_DNS_FOR_FROM which caught roughly 2% of spam with a 99.9% accuracy > rate (those are my real-time numbers which are better than my corpus > numbers since the test is highly time-sensitive). > > If you object to the change, complaining to ICANN and Verisign might not > hurt. If you take the further step of switching your registrations > elsewhere, I would suggest calling Verisign to let them know why (and > give them your name and the domain name you have moved so they know you > were a paying customer). > > As far as the SpamAssassin DNS tests go, I'm thinking about the best > course of action. Someone might come up with a better solution (that > requires less work on our part) than treating their web server IP > address to be the same thing as NXDOMAIN. Does this recent post to SPAM-L help? From: Bruce Gingery To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: list only or author only please <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: MISC: The world's crazy Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 04:59:37 -0600 In one night: 1. splat A records at nameservers that should only have NS records at the following top-level domain servers: Corrupted Bogus IPv4 address(es) Top Level Domain and who-is-announcing route to it ================= ================================= *.ac A 194.205.62.122 AS 5378 - Clueless & Witless .UK *.cc A 206.253.214.102 AS 6993 - PNAP *.com A 64.94.110.11 AS 30060 - VeriSign *.cx A 219.88.106.80 AS 4648 - Netgate .NZ *.museum A 195.7.77.20 AS 8195 - Clueless & Witless .SE *.net A 64.94.110.11 AS 30060 - VeriSign *.nu A 64.55.105.9 AS 2548 - ALGX and A 212.181.91.6 AS 3301 - TeliaNet .SE *.sh A 194.205.62.62 AS 5378 - Clueless & Witless .UK *.tm A 194.205.62.62 AS 5378 - Clueless & Witless .UK *.ws A 216.35.187.246 AS 3561 - Clueless & Witless .US Internet death penalties pending. -- Bob Apthorpe ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk