Re: Heads up - ORBZ.ORG RBL returning postitive for all lookups

From: Simon White (no email)
Date: Fri Nov 01 2002 - 06:56:03 EST


01-Nov-02 at 12:31, Andrew McNamara () wrote :
> >> This may have already been mentioned on the list, but the orbz.org
> >> RBL's are returning positive matches for any address as of about 23
> >> hours ago. If you are still listing them in your postfix config, you
> >> will be bouncing all mail (including this one, probably).
> >>
> >> See: http://orbz.org/
> >
> >orbz.org was retired a long time ago due to having crashed a Lotus
> >Domino server and being issued a notice to appear in court about it or
> >something.
> >
> >Old news, no?
>
> Except that up until about 2 days ago, it was still returning what looked
> like sane data. After that time, it's returning postitive matches for
> *any* queried address. So, the death of ORBZ is old news, but many admins
> were still apparently unaware, and now it's bouncing *all* their mail,
> which is new news to many of them, apparently... 8-(

They should have done it sooner... I stopped using it as soon as I saw
the notice, which was a shame because it blocked a lot of mail for us.

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