[ale] Recommendations for well-maintained IP blacklists?

Phil Turmel philip at turmel.org
Wed Dec 26 08:16:50 EST 2012


Hi Mike,

On 12/25/2012 07:18 PM, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> Does anyone here use IP blacklists to drop traffic from known-bad
> sources?  And if so, where do you get your well-maintained IP blacklists
> from?

A snip from turmel.org's Exim configuration:

> 
>   deny    message       = $sender_host_address is in a black list at $dnslist_domain
>           hosts         = !+relay_from_hosts
>           hosts         = !+skip_dnsbl_hosts
>           dnslists      = dnsbl.sorbs.net : dnsbl.njabl.org : bl.spamcop.net : zen.spamhaus.org
> 

I whitelist a few hosts that are prone to inadvertently passing spam
(vger.kernel.org in particular).

Phil



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