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[Res]

On followup, I recall several root servers under DoS in recent days, 
perhaps its still ongoing, in past few hours my server has  4.5.1'd 
redhat.com and sourceforge, so I wouldn't think it is your problem


  On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Res wrote:

> On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, am.lists wrote:
>
>> Scott,
>> Just curious why I got dinged for my IP being a spambot/virus...
>> 
>> I have proper reverse and forward dns, not on any RBLs, etc.
>> 
>
> ~$ host 64.44.11.163
> 163.11.44.64.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer mailgw.evokemail.com.
> ~$ host mailgw.evokemail.com
> Host mailgw.evokemail.com not found: 2(SERVFAIL)
>
>
> ~$ whois evokemail.com
> getaddrinfo(whois.crsnic.net): Temporary failure in name resolution
>
>
> This might be why :)
>
>
>
>> Angelo
>> 
>> On 2/9/07, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote:
>>>  pts rule name              description
>>> ---- ---------------------- 
>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>>  2.0 BOTNET                 Relay might be a spambot or virusbot
>>>              [botnet0.7,ip=64.44.11.163,hostname=mailgw.evokemail.com,baddns]
>> 
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>

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Cheers
Res

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