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Category: Spam Filter ISP
Forum Name: Spam Filter ISP Support
Forum Description: General support for Spam Filter ISP
URL: https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=892
Printed Date: 05 February 2025 at 1:57am


Topic: MAPS blacklist lookup
Posted By: Guests
Subject: MAPS blacklist lookup
Date Posted: 11 June 2003 at 10:04am

I just subscribed to MAPS LLC's RBL+ service. They gave me a zone name to perform lookups against, and I've entered it into my list of MAPS Servers. It doesn't seem to work.  I've e-mailed them, and they said ..

zonename.mail-abuse.org is the name of the zone, not a host - it contains A
records, it does not have one. We have 3 DNS servers that are authoratative
for this zone. You can query against the zone by performing nslookups like:

nslookup 2.0.0.127.rbl-plus.mail-abuse.org

The answer you will receive is 127.1.0.5

My question to Logsat is does Spamfilter perform lookups in this format? How does the entire MAPS lookup proccess work with Spamfilter?


Replies:
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 11 June 2003 at 11:49am

Instead of putting true put false.

ie

site1=rbl-plus.mail-abuse.org, false

site2=formmail.relays.monkeys.com, true

site3=bl.spamcop.net, true

site4=ztl.dorkslayers.com, true

site5=no-more-funn.moensted.dk, true

site6=proxies.relays.monkeys.com, true

site7=block.blars.org, true

site8=relays.osirusoft.com, true

site9=blackholes.wirehub.net, true

site10=t1.bl.reynolds.net.au, true

site11=blackholes.intersil.net, true

site12=blackholes.five-ten-sg.com, true

site13=bl.spamcop.net, true

site14=sbl.spamhaus.org, true

site15=sbl.spamhaus.org, true

site16=dnsbl.njabl.org, true

site17=spam.dnsrbl.net, true

site18=relays.ordb.org, true

site19=dnsbl.sorbs.net, true

site20=bl.deadbeef.com, true

site21=orbs.dorkslayers.com, true

site22=proxies.relays.monkeys.com, true

site23=blacklist.spambag.org, true

site24=china.blackholes.us, true

site25=korea.blackholes.us, true

site26=taiwan.blackholes.us, true

site27=brazil.blackholes.us, true

site28=china.blackholes.us, true

site29=brazil.blackholes.us, true

site30=bl.spamcop.net, true

site31=rackspace.blackholes.us, true

site32=list.dsbl.org, true

site33=bl.spamcop.net, true

site34=bl.spamcop.net, true

;site6=dun.dnsrbl.net, true

Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 11 June 2003 at 12:44pm
Wouldn't setting it to false disable it? If not, what is the purpose of setting it to false?

Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 11 June 2003 at 12:47pm
Don't know why but that is how is works.  You turn it off by commenting it out.

Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 11 June 2003 at 12:47pm
Nevermind... I had to RTFM (read the manual)

Posted By: Desperado
Date Posted: 11 June 2003 at 10:55pm

Setting the dnsbl to False DOES NOT disable it.  It tells the SpamFiltr APP that the zone format is the reverse of a normal dnsbl. ... meaning the IP is in the "forward" direction. Most dnsbl's use a reverse direction because the zone file is easier to understand and to query.

example: if the ip you are looking up is 209.140.81.18, the NORMAL (or True) setting will do a lookup as follows:

nslookup 18.81.140.209.relays.ordb.org

Dan S.


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