As of last night osirusoft & spews are returning almost 100% blacklisted results. Anyone running osirusoft & spews should remove these RBL's from mailers. The WWW sites say that this may be an indefinate problem I have had no email since early AM so if this had been mentioned already im sorry. More info at www.osirusoft.com & www.spews.org . Best regards Matthew G Brown B & R Holdings LIMITED Nelson, New Zealand DDI: + 64 3 544 9116 MOB: 027 4807731 http://www.brh.co.nz http://www.backupserver.co.nz
This is probably due to the high number of DDoS attacks being launched against them. We asked to be removed from the secondary DNS listings because of these attacks. Currently, socks.relays.osirusoft.com rejects all lookups. Joe may have done this in order to trace some of the DDoS attacks - the amount of damage done to networks with these (we're talking attacks in excess of 200Mbits) will almost certainly have generated some interest in law enforcement circles. In the meantime, I suggest running your own setup - see http://spfilter.sourceforge.net for details on running a local dnsbl. The only thing these attacks achieve is the creation of local blocklists that are much more difficult to get out of....
Joe has taken down Osirusoft due the massive DDoS attacks. Unfortunately, it would appear that the FBI do not wish to get involved, and noone else has jurisdiction. See http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg12825.html
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