On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 01:04 +0100, Benny Pedersen wrote:
> On Sat, November 22, 2008 00:31, Daniel J McDonald wrote:
> 
> > 74/8 was removed from the Bogon list in 2005, but maybe the recipient
> > hasn't updated their bogon acl in bind...
> 
> rdns have nothing to do with rbl

But many people hard-code bogons into bind, and if they are clueless
admins they don't update it...

The bogon list is published at
http://www.cymru.com/Documents/bogon-list.html

The question is - what piece of gear inserted the header (from the small
snippet we have seen, we don't know).  Since this is someone from
intersessions.com posting, my guess would be that he got a False
positive spam report from someone, and they handed the headers they
generated, and he's trying to figure out why it's unknown.  If the other
guys have their dns messed up because they haven't cleaned out bogons in
4 years, then it would show up as unknown.  

There have been some fairly major distros that were distributing stale
bogon lists in the bind package.  Mandriva, as an example, had a
6-year-old bogon list in their bind package until I opened a bug a year
ago (and they tried to close it as a WON'TFIX, but cooler heads
prevailed after a bit of thought...)

> 
-- 
Daniel J McDonald, CCIE #2495, CISSP #78281, CNX
Austin Energy
http://www.austinenergy.com

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