Stop Using relays.osirusoft.com *NOW*!

From: Jim Seymour (jseymour_at_LinxNet.com)
Date: 08/27/03

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    To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 17:11:00 -0400 (EDT)

    I sent this to the other admin-related mailing lists to which I'm
    subscribed, but somehow didn't think about this one. Sorry.

    As many of you *should* be aware: relays.osirusoft.com has been
    experiencing problems. As of Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2003, ISPs began
    reporting that non-dialup, dedicated circuits were apparently being
    reported by relays.osirusoft.com as dialups.

    Curious, I checked my business DSL circuit's IP address. (Note that
    my ISP sells no dialup, or even dynamic DSL.)

    $ rblcheck -lt
    64.32.196.134
    64.32.196.134 : relays.osirusoft.com : listed
        "Please stop using relays.osirusoft.com"

    Somebody checked, and it looks like relays.osirusoft.com has a "*"
    wildcard entry to 127.0.0.2 for all zones. This means that *every*
    IP address checked against *any* relays.osirusoft.com zone will
    show up as a "hit." If you reject on any of those zones, you'll
    reject everything, from every host.

    Subsequent to posting the above, elsewhere, I discovered the following,
    posted to news.admin.net-abuse.blocklisting:

    | Subject: Update on relays.osirusoft.com
    | Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.blocklisting
    | From: Andy Finkenstadt <kahuna@panix.com>
    | Message-ID: <bigprp$ri3$1@reader2.panix.com>
    | Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 23:50:15 GMT
    [snip]
    | "Direct from Joe Jared's mouth, he's shutting down the service, that people
    | need to stop using it, that he's been saying for weeks that people
    | need to stop using it, that he's tired of being hammered on and
    | abused, and therefore, he's shutting it down. He'll be helpful in
    | making people choose not to use relays.osirusoft.com in their dnsbl
    | tables by blacklisting random and/or all internet addresses, at
    | whim."
    |
    | Per Jim Miller, my system administrator, who watched over my
    | shoulder as I posted this.
    |
    | Andy Finkenstadt

    Anybody who is still using relays.osirusoft.com had probably better
    stop doing so. Immediately. 

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