OSEC

Neohapsis is currently accepting applications for employment. For more information, please visit our website www.neohapsis.com or email hr@neohapsis.com
Re: [HEADS UP] remove ordb from your systems

From: Jacqui Caren (Jacqui.carenntlworld.com)
Date: Tue Apr 01 2008 - 09:23:29 CDT


Frog wrote:
> mouss wrote:
>
>> For those who didn't see it, ordb now returns a positive result for
>> every query. If you have
>> reject_rbl_client relays.ordb.org
>> you should disable it. Also check other software and hardware
>> (appliances, ...) that may be using it. (Are Symantec and others
>> inundated with support calls?).
>>
>> ordb was discontinued more than a year ago, so this action is
>> understandable and there is nothing to complain about (of you course,
>> you can still complain to yourself or to your vendor ;-p)
>>
> Hello,
>
> I just noticed that the documentation on the Postfix site still refers
> to relays.ordb.org which may cause some confusion if it isn't changed.
>
> The specific page where I saw it is http://www.postfix.org/uce.html

It is a bit sad that a dead RBL has to go to the trouble of +ve
listings for everyone just to stop people using it.

Hmm, perhaps ATT/BT/yahoo's 'new' filter engine included ordb? :-)
It would explain why people could not even email themselves!

Jacqui