Hello All, A heads-up for anyone using ORBS for spam filtering: ORBS has added the following manual entries to its database: 18.160.46.202.inputs.orbs.org IN TXT "Domainz.net.nz - Attacks on ORBS and ORBS hosters." 50.160.46.202.inputs.orbs.org IN TXT "Domainz.net.nz - Attacks on ORBS and ORBS hosters." 37.16.96.203.inputs.orbs.org IN TXT "Delivery point for Domainz.net.nz - Attacks on ORBS and ORBS hosters." These represent the hosts www.domainz.net.nz, office.domainz.net.nz and mail2.actrix.gen.nz respectively. The records were added on the 9th Feb 2001, according to the ORBS database web pages. The impact of this is that if a site is using ORBS for spam blocking, it will reject mail from the Domainz automated systems, including notifications of passwords, nameserver changes, reminders of accounts due and other automatically generated DRS notifications. It will also reject mail from the Actrix list server, which includes Domainz mailing lists, ISOCNZ mailing lists and presumably others. Normal customer service email should be unaffected, as these come from other Actrix hosts. Suffice to say, none of these addresses have been used to attack the ORBS service or systems, nor do the mail servers on these addresses relay spam or block ORBS queries. Email queries to ORBS by myself and Actrix staff have not elicited a reply. Unless ORBS decides to remove these records, anyone needing to to communicate (or having customers that may need to communicate) with Domainz should ensure that ORBS is not in use by their mail exchangers, or arrangements to bypass the blocks on the Domainz addresses are in place. -- don --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog