Re: [cobalt-users] XBL listing (was: New FormMail script)

[sm <sm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jeff,
At 15:24 30-04-2002 -0700, Jeff Lasman wrote:
>Can you direct me to where I can find out which of my netblocks is/are
>listed by XBL?  Where do I look them up?  If any of these IP#s are at
>Inflow, Inflow will terminate the customers.  If not, then XBL is
>painting with too broad a brush; if they're blocking xx.yy for example,
>they're blocking perhaps a few million good guys to block a few bad
>guys.

The XBL website is at http://www.selwerd.cx/xbl/  You can do an IP address
lookup there.  I wouldn't bother emailing the administrator of that list as
he mentions on his website that he doesn't honor requests to delist IP
addresses.

I suggest that you read the policy of a DNS blackhole lists before using
it.  some of them list a /16 to block one server that sent out spam.

Regards,
-sm