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["Aaron J. Angel" <aaron.angel AT gmail.com>]

How do they not have every DNS server blacklisted if resolving a domain name pointing to a server hosting malware is good enough to get blacklisted?

On Sat, Dec 17, 2016, 3:01 PM Fusl Dash <opennic AT lists.dedilink.eu> wrote:

On 12/17/2016 08:51 PM, Aaron J. Angel wrote:
> So, another server is hosting malware, and Spamhaus goes to the effort of finding a DNS server that resolves a domain name to that server and blocks it...from doing what, exactly? The DNS server isn't delivering mail content with malware, is it? This makes no sense to me. What am I missing? I wasn't on IRC.

See https://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/query/SBL325026

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> On Sat, Dec 17, 2016, 2:44 PM Theo B <me AT theos.space> wrote:
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>     Hi -
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>     So, on thursday a big conversation took place on IRC about Spamhaus deciding to block Fusl's anycast DNS server IPs because a .bit domain was hosting malware. The conversation never really came to a conclusion, so I wanted to throw out some ideas that we talked about.
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>     Here are some of the options we talked about in IRC:
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>     1. Just ignore Spamhaus and move along(This could be bad because some ISPs block the IPs that Spamhaus blocks)
>     2. Send them an email explaining what we do, and how we're not responsible for any of the content on .bit.. and then hope they remove it.
>     3. Drop .bit completely, and tell them that the content is no longer there.
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>     What do you people think about this?
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>     -Theo
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