-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, February 17, 2006 9:23 pm, replies-lists-redhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > you really shouldn't be blocking by domain in the first place. > > with the amount of forged spam, blocking by domain has a high probability > of blocking legit users. blocking by ipnumber will block the source > machine, regardless of the domain used. > > of course, this approach will block the whole machine - so really intended > for blocking spam zombies, open relays and the like - it's not really a > good approach if you're simply trying to block an individual spammer (if > you're using sendmail, use the /etc/access file for that). > > by the way, you will notice that the dnsbl systems are all based on > ipnumber, never host/domain name. yes I agree, I kinda hinted that on my first post but I wanted to make sure I was on the same page as everyone else. I am using Qmail BTW. :) I just have to figure out how to tighten Qmail. The docs really do not go into that. I will look again though to be sure. Thanks for your reply. - -- Best regards, ~WILL~ Key: http://code-heads.com/keys/ch1.asc Key: http://code-heads.com/keys/ch2.asc Linux Commands: http://code-heads.com/commands Linux Registered User: 406084 (http://counter.li.org/) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD9odPL+aQ40qvU+URAnCrAJ9CHNrcSrwBHcx4gvdJ7JbgGLorUACgh7Wm zvkAJtcvAwtrndl89OXsMSA= =+SSH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
