You are using it the wrong way .. most of the drop list is directly spammer controlled space used as, for example, C&C for botnets. You'd see tons of abuse and little or no smtp traffic from a lot of those hosts. On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Jason Bertoch <jason@i6ix.com> wrote:
Justin Shore wrote:
As a brief off-shoot of the original topic, has anyone scripted the use of Spamhaus's DROP list in a RTBH, ACLs, null-routes, etc? I'm not asking if people think it's safe; that's up to the network wanting to deploy it. I'm
Downloading and parsing is easy. I used to drop it into the config for a small dns server, rbldnsd I believe, that understands CIDR and used it as a local blacklist. It did very little to stop spam and I was never brave enough to script an automatic update to BGP.