From: mouss (moussnetoyen.net)
Date: Tue Apr 01 2008 - 13:36:46 CDT

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Jacqui Caren wrote:
> 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.

There seems to be no other way to get the knockers to stop. millions of
DNS queries aren't free when you're the one who receive them.

>
> Hmm, perhaps ATT/BT/yahoo's 'new' filter engine included ordb? :-)

I am not aware of any problems at these sites. In particular, I didn't
notice any problem with yahoo.

> It would explain why people could not even email themselves!

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