On 20 Nov 2024, Andy Smith uttered the following: > Hi, > > On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 05:07:09PM +0000, Nix wrote: >> > From >> > https://knowledge.validity.com/s/articles/Accessing-Validity-reputation-data-through-DNS >> > : >> >> Tried registering here. I can register a v4 address, but every format of >> v6 CIDR I've tried reports "Invalid V6_CIDR" with (of course) no > > I experienced the same a couple of months ago and reported it to them. > Their response after several weeks was: > > "I investigated this with our engineering team. We currently don't > support IPV6 in the on the my validity/ zone file registration page. > Our product team is working to remove IPV6 as option. > > Currently only IPV4 single and IPV4 range are supported. I apologize > for any confusion." > > I see they haven't got around to removing the IPv6 features that they > consider a mistake yet then. > > (They don't have IPv6 addresses on their nameservers so currently there > is no point supplying your IPv6 netblocks in any case. You're not > missing out.)
Oh right. I never even considered *checking* that. Of course they've got IPv6 addresses, who hasn't who's running a server for high-volume public use? ... most of the more stick-in-the-mud corners of the Internet, it turns out. > More here: > > https://www.mail-archive.com/mailop@mailop.org/msg23456.html Wow, that thread is eye-opening. Fairly hilarious DNS management, I must say... > Their web site only half works. They were unable / unwilling to explain > to me how they have calculated that I have exceeded their limits when > I'm almost certain that I haven't. I find their corporate web site to be > difficult to understand regarding what they actually do or sell. But > their DNS lists *are* free so there is a limit to what one can expect. I > don't have a lot of confidence that they will continue to exist as a > company. Indeed not. > I don't think they should be in default SpamAssassin and if I experience > any more problems with them then I'm going to disable lookups. Ditto. -- NULL && (void)
