Hello all,
If a cox.net mail admin, or someone who knows a cox.net mail admin could
contact me offlist about them blocking 2mbit.com in their mail servers, that
would be great. I've tried contacting their postmaster@cox.net with UNBLOCK
in the subject, but it just bounces the mail back at me with the same error as
if I was trying to contact one of their users. Sooo, you kinda see the
issue.
Thanks
Hello all,
If a cox.net mail admin, or someone who knows a cox.net mail admin could
contact me offlist about them blocking 2mbit.com in their mail servers, that
would be great. I've tried contacting their postmaster@cox.net with UNBLOCK
in the subject, but it just bounces the mail back at me with the same error as
if I was trying to contact one of their users. Sooo, you kinda see the
issue.
Get used to it, a lot of mail servers are rejecting mail that comes from
DSL and Cable modem lines, you're hosting 2mbit.com on roadrunner (despite
calling it an 'RF T1' (??)) and thus, it will be blocked.
Open Solutions For A Closed World / Anti-Spam Resources
http://www.sosdg.orgThe Abusive Hosts Blocking List
http://www.ahbl.org
The irony..
The IP that 2mbit.com inhabits is on a Road Runner commercial block, which is allocated for small to mid-sized businesses. There is no reason for commercial cable networks to be blocked under the same pretenses that consumer cable networks are blocked.
Just my 2 cents
Greg
Matthew S. Hallacy wrote:
Well, except that they're often no more secure than anyone else, usually
lack rDNS that might distinguish them from consumer grade networks, and
you'd have to be insane to accept mail from any mail server with generic
rDNS. Other than that, you're right.
Its the domain specificly. Not the IP. I can send to cox.net using one of my
other dozen domain names from our IPs directly without a block. But, no
matter where I try 2mbit.com from, its blocked.
I suspect it has something to do with the 'fix' I was told by cox.net that was
in place to prevent them from DoSing our mail servers with bounces. Rather
then actually fixing their mail servers, just block my domain so that the joe
job doesn't cause bounces in the first place.
How nice of them eh? Guess my cox.net mail server blacklist entry in the AHBL
during the attack didn't get the message through.
lets look at your website mister hallacy.
[root@everest root]# host www.poptix.net
www.poptix.net has address 24.72.12.135
hrm... 24/8... looks like a cablemodem to me, lets see
[root@everest root]# whois 24.72.12.135
[Querying whois.arin.net]
[whois.arin.net]
Cable Regina CABLER (NET-24-72-0-0-1)
24.72.0.0 - 24.72.143.255
Access Communications - Regina Customer Network CUST-REGINA-1
(NET-24-72-2-0-1) 24.72.2.0 -
24.72.49.255
my my, we have a cablemodem. And using it with no other claim
to any point in network administration, like say a blacklist which
blocks over 1 million spam e-mails per day, or the largest and most
complete RHSBL on the internet, or perhaps community/free web and
e-mail hosting for anti-spammers? Mister Hallacy, do you in fact
provide anything back to the community from whom you've consumed so
much?
But wait there's more! lets find out about that server...
it's stats can be seen here:
http://www.techmonkeys.org/phpSysInfo/
I hope he isn't running his website off the lexar jumpdrive 
http://www.techmonkeys.org/
which is the same ip as poptix.net
[root@everest root]# host www.techmonkeys.org
www.techmonkeys.org has address 24.72.12.135
But enough about technology, lets talk about poptix himself. Mister
Hallacy or a kiddie associate, in response to my comment about #nanog
being script kiddies, contacted a script kiddie via phone to harass
him while impersonating a member of my staff, with the intent of having
my network attacked. He has repeatedly harassed me via telephone, and
his prank calls during DoS attacks(perhaps he was responsible for them?)
are well documented on this list.
http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/2003-10/msg00719.html
Mister Hallacy is a felon, convicted of computer tampering in 2000. He
is serving 5 years probation.
http://3jane.ashpool.org/~poptix/MyStory.html Look to the last section.
and the rest of his actions documented here and above.
And in regards to your certifications... real certifications come from
Cisco and Novell, not a Cracker Jack box.
I firmly assert that Matthew Hallacy provides no signal to this list.
He does nothing but Denial of Service attack and harass it's members.
He impersonates members of the list to harass other members of this
list. THIS IS NOT A PLAYGROUND.
I have sent Sue Harris 3 private e-mails in the last 48 hours, to which
I have gotten no respone. I am now publically calling on Sue Harris to
remove Matthew and his gang of script kiddies from #nanog from this
list. Their behavior is deplorable. Their attitude is #damaging
to this list, and their antics off the list towards members of this list
are inexcusable and illegal.
For the last time, harassment and impersonation of the users of this
list, is not only ontopic, but the rapid knowledge and ability to deal
with this situation is integral to it's continued success.
[snip chilish spew]
Get over it, and fight your petty battle somewhere else.
- d.