[vox-tech] smtp question - blocked ip

[Rod Roark]

They blacklisted Pac Bell?  Now there's a nice example of 
spitting into the wind.  :-)

-- Rod
   http://www.sunsetsystems.com/

On Friday 03 January 2003 09:15 am, Steven Peck wrote:
> The reciever is setup to use a block list by ip address.  So, lookup your
> MX and/or IP Address in a lookup site.
> For all potential email block/spam problems, I turn to
> www.dnsstuff.com
>
> The MX for dirac.org is 'mail.dirac.org'
> The IP is 64.164.47.8'
>
> Looking up the IP Address at DNSStuff gets you
> http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ip4r.ch?ip=64.164.47.8
>
> Your IP is listed in spambag.org's email blocklist
> http://www.spambag.org/cgi-bin/spambag?mailfrom=pacbell
>
> Pete, you spammer you. :) j/k
> Best of luck getting off of it seeing as it is a PacBell IP netblock.
> Your best hope is if 'netease.net' can whitelist your ip address.
>
> -sp
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Jay Salzman [mailto:p@dirac.org]
> Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 8:51 AM
> To: vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
> Subject: [vox-tech] smtp question - blocked ip
>
>
> can someone give me a more useful description of the problem here?  who
> is blocking whom?  it sounds like my MTA rejected sending email to
> netease, but ORDB and tcp wrappers for exim (which i use) should block
> incoming mail from spammers, not outgoing mail to spammers.
>
> at least, i'm pretty sure about that...
>
> pete
>
> sorry for terse message, but i'm still on a 14.4.....
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Mail Delivery System <Mailer-Daemon@dirac.org>
> -----
>
> From: Mail Delivery System <Mailer-Daemon@dirac.org>
> To: p@dirac.org
> Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender
> Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 08:42:07 -0800
>
> This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim).
>
> A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
> recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
>
>   cdavis@netease.net
>     SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO:<cdavis@netease.net>:
>     host mx02.netease.net [64.7.232.14]: 554
> <adsl-64-164-47-8.dsl.scrm01.pacbell.net[64.164.47.8]>:
>     Client host rejected: ACL IP Blocked; (5.7.1) Policy Violation 1205