William wrote:
Hi,
Perhaps people wouldn't have to email you if the robot actually did what it said it was going to do. Your website promises that the robot will get things delisted out of the DUHL zone in "3 to 5 hours".
Please feel free to show me *any* SORBS webpage that says this because the robot cannot delist you, it just approves you for delisting.
It has been more than "3 to 5 hours", and it is costing me money. Considering that you shouldn't have listed the space to begin with, I think it would be fantastic if you updated the website to reflect the reality of the situation.
Then tell me where it says 3-5 hours and I'll correct the text.
While I am sorry to hear that most of the people you deal with are morons, it does not change the facts that SORBS listed IP address space for no valid reason, other than the first version of the RDNS not having .static. in it.
The robot doesn't list or delist so the entry was added at some point because of either spam, or it's an old entry that has not had any requests to update. The robot will reject certain patterns of DNS, you can always reply to the ticket as the whois contact to get delisted outside of what the robot says (as it says in the robot reply) thought it should be noted that I don't care who contacts me, if the rDNS is clearly dynamic (eg: <some>.<ip>.dyn.<domain>.<tld>) you're not going to get delisted at all.
Perhaps if this sort of thing didn't keep happening, on a regular basis, we would never hear about SORBS, MAPS, or any other RBLs on NANOG in a bad light.
Personally, I like SORBS. I would like to continue to be able to use SORBS on my mail servers. The fact that my addresses are listed as being dynamic in SORBS when they are not, and it hasn't been fixed in the timeframe that the website promises it would be fixed in, is making me re-evaluate whether or not I should use SORBS and recommend it to people looking for good DNSBLs to use on their mailservers.
NO I DO NOT ACCEPT DELISTING REQUESTS OUT OF THE SUPPORT SYSTEM!
Then you should make your delisting process more streamlined. You already have a robot for most things, make it do the next step and just delist the IP ranges it is given.
The process has been more and more streamlined as time has progressed. The support system will ask questions and will allow you to either delist or request delisting very easily. If you are an ISP you can (at the moment) use the mail/contact form to submit a request to the manual queue immediately... and anyone can send requests by email to the support system bypassing the whole "we'll gather the information via a web form" script, but the robot will reply, and if you do not meet the acceptance criteria by the robot you need to read the message and act upon it (eg: it will usually tell you to reply to the ticket after correcting something). In your case I have reviewed the address space and I see the robot will approve it for delisting, no questions (or should do) however it will have replied with something like the following: ---- I'm a robot writing you on behalf of the SORBS' admins. The reason you're getting this automated response, is our desire to provide you with consistent and fast responses. I'm prepared to correctly analyze most of the cases appearing in the DUHL queue. You might want to keep your responses as short as possible (and to trim my own responses) to help humans better serve you should the need arise. I'm glad to report that the IP space will be submitted for delisting from the DUHL. Best regards. SORBS ---- Read the last paragraph again.. "will be submitted for delisting" .. not "has been delisted and it will take 3-5 hours to propagate"... I have to process all removals manually after the robot because the robot does get it wrong, and then you have the likes of JustHost and the spammers there that keep requesting delisting with totally bogus (but static looking) hosts. Michelle