From: Jim Seymour (jseymour@LinxNet.com)
Date: Wed Aug 27 2003 - 17:11:00 EDT
I sent this to the other admin-related mailing lists to which I'm
subscribed, but somehow didn't think about this one. Sorry.
As many of you *should* be aware: relays.osirusoft.com has been
experiencing problems. As of Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2003, ISPs began
reporting that non-dialup, dedicated circuits were apparently being
reported by relays.osirusoft.com as dialups.
Curious, I checked my business DSL circuit's IP address. (Note that
my ISP sells no dialup, or even dynamic DSL.)
$ rblcheck -lt
64.32.196.134
64.32.196.134 : relays.osirusoft.com : listed
"Please stop using relays.osirusoft.com"
Somebody checked, and it looks like relays.osirusoft.com has a "*"
wildcard entry to 127.0.0.2 for all zones. This means that *every*
IP address checked against *any* relays.osirusoft.com zone will
show up as a "hit." If you reject on any of those zones, you'll
reject everything, from every host.
Subsequent to posting the above, elsewhere, I discovered the following,
posted to news.admin.net-abuse.blocklisting:
| Subject: Update on relays.osirusoft.com
| Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.blocklisting
| From: Andy Finkenstadt <kahuna@panix.com>
| Message-ID: <bigprp$ri3$1@reader2.panix.com>
| Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 23:50:15 GMT
[snip]
| "Direct from Joe Jared's mouth, he's shutting down the service, that people
| need to stop using it, that he's been saying for weeks that people
| need to stop using it, that he's tired of being hammered on and
| abused, and therefore, he's shutting it down. He'll be helpful in
| making people choose not to use relays.osirusoft.com in their dnsbl
| tables by blacklisting random and/or all internet addresses, at
| whim."
|
| Per Jim Miller, my system administrator, who watched over my
| shoulder as I posted this.
|
| Andy Finkenstadt
Anybody who is still using relays.osirusoft.com had probably better
stop doing so. Immediately.
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