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Re: RBL report..



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It is rumored that on 26-Mar-2000 Nils Jeppe wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
>> ORBS also blacklist sites for other reasons, such as if their probes are
>> firewalled out.  This will, for example, catch sites that automatically
>> firewall out sites that attempt to relay through them - the site notices
>> the first check, blocks the rest and gets added to the list.
> 
> Well I didn't know that, however, that's a pretty redundant thing to do -
> afterall, you can just disable relaying alltogether and be done with
> it. ;-)

If you are on a 64K line and get hit by a spam blast from some well known
providers only the rejects fill your line completely. 

Unfortunately I have seen this quite afew times and been hit a few years ago by
it a few times.

So this is actually a good policy. Though if you are smart enough to configure
something like this yous hould be smart enough to make it avoid the orbs wrath
;-)

[snip]

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Anton R. Ivanov
IP Engineer Level3 Communications
RIPE: ARI2-RIPE      E-Mail: Anton Ivanov <aivanov@eu.level3.net>
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      and the others will follow.

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