RBL Usage Questions

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Nov 13 16:03:38 GMT 2003


No, it just considers it to be 1 big list.

The regexp is actually this, I just checked the code:
/^127\.[01]\.0\.[123456789]\d*$/

At 15:43 13/11/2003, you wrote:
>Julian, Sorry to be dense.
>
>When you say "It is triggered if it gets _any_ of the valid 127.0.0.x return
>codes" Do you mean that it is triggered irrespective of the number i.e. if I
>have
>Spam Lists To Reach High Score = 2
>it would be triggered even if I got back 127.0.0.1?  Or does it understand
>that
>127.1.0.1, 127.1.0.2, 127.1.0.4, 127.1.0.8 = 1 hit and so wouldn't trigger
>127.1.0.3, 127.1.0.5, 127.1.0.3, 127.1.0.6, 127.1.0.9, 127.1.0.10,
>127.1.0.12 = 2 hits
>127.1.0.7, 127.1.0.11, 127.1.0.13, 127.1.0.14 = 3 hits
>127.1.0.5 = 4 hits
>
>Thanks,
>
>Tim.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
>Sent: 13 November 2003 14:06
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: RBL Usage Questions
>
>
>At 13:22 13/11/2003, you wrote:
> >I have a couple of newbie RBL questions:
> >
> >1. If I have MailScanner doing RBL using _only_ MAPS-RBL+ which provides an
> >aggregated service, how does MS handle the score returned by the MAPS-RBL+
> >lookup as the last part of the IP address in the context of the "Spam Lists
> >To Reach High Score" definition.
> >
> >(See
> >http://www.ja.net/CERT/JANET-CERT/mail/mail-abuse/rbl-plus-guide.html#other
>M
> >APS for the explanation of the lookup results)
>
>It is triggered if it gets any of the valid 127.0.0.x return codes.
>
>
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