[time-nuts] Strange reports of bocked messages to timenuts
Chuck Harris
cfharris at erols.com
Sat May 17 06:56:42 EDT 2008
Magne Mæhre wrote:
> Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
>> I've been receiving some emails which claim to come from my ISP saying
>> my messages to timenuts have been blocked due to spam.
>>
>> A typical subject line is "[time-nuts] ***Your message was blocked***"
>> But I've not sent a message!
>
> The problem is not with you. All subscribers to the list received this.
> What causes the email is that conwin.ie use a lookup service to discard
> unwanted email (spam, scams, etc.). This lookup service seems to check
> with rfc-ignorant.com that has a listing over domains that are not
> compliant with the mail and dns related RFC's. Unfortunately
> febo.com is listed here.
>
> It seems febo.com (John's domain, and the host of the time-nuts
> mailing lists) was listed at rfc-ignorant.org 2 1/2 years ago due
> to a problem with the DNS record for meow.febo.com.
>
>
> | Current Results for febo.com lookup
> | blacklist_zone domain status Submitted Added Rejected | Removed
> | bogusmx febo.com Listed Nov 11, 2005 22:35 EST Nov 11, | 2005
> 22:35 EST Never Never
>
> ..and details:
>
> | Return Code: 5
> | Description: ns1.febo.com reports that febo.com has an MX
> | (meow.febo.com) which ns1.febo.com says is a CNAME (to febo.com)
>
>
> The issue they're complaining about is that febo.com has an MX record
> that points to meow.febo.com. A host that is pointed to by an MX record
> must have an A record, and is not allowed to be a CNAME. It turns out
> that meow.febo.com is a CNAME for febo.com, and thus in violation with
> the RFC.
>
>
> --Magne
What you say is true, but it is interesting to note that
David Kirkby's ISP (OneTel.net) is also blacklisted on rfc-ignorant.com
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If you are the site administrator for the listed domain or netblock, and this has been corrected, please contact
admin at rfc-ignorant.org to have this listing removed.
Submitted by: petri.koistinen at iki.fi (postfix at dsl-hkigw4m08.dial.inet.fi [80.222.60.8])
Evidence:
petri.koistinen at iki.fi (postfix at dsl-hkigw4m08.dial.inet.fi [80.222.60.8])
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From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON at onetel.net>
Message-Id: <200402082218.AXI00264 at bb-ms1.onetel.net.uk>
To: petri.koistinen at iki.fi
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The original message was received at Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:18:53 GMT
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Final-Recipient: RFC822; abuse at onetel.net
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
Remote-MTA: X-Unix; mirapoint
Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 550 5.1.1 User unknown
Last-Attempt-Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:18:56 GMT
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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 00:18:52 +0200 (EET)
From: "Petri T. Koistinen" <petri.koistinen at iki.fi>
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