Re: dnsbl.sorbs.net

"Paul F. Hunt" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.spamcop.email
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Mike,

Thank you for tackling this for me.

> Paul F. Hunt wrote:
> > tops-tele.com is a local provider in my area that I (always?) see
> > being blocked through Spamcop due to dnsbl.sorbs.net (and, yes, I
> > know I can whitelist them).
 
> I'm not following that.  What does 'blocked through Spamcop due to
> [sorbs]' mean?

It gets held in my incoming held email at Spamcop and the reason is
given as:

 X-SpamCop-Disposition: Blocked dnsbl.sorbs.net
 
> If we want to talk about a mail being blocked which you see, then that
> means that the sender of the mail would see some kind of nondelivery
> error, which optimally would show the IP being blocked, so that we don't
> have to guess at it.

Not happening.
 
> Therein you see the 'problem' of needing to know what IP address you are
> talking about in order to find out what its condition is.

OK. I see that now. So I pulled up the original email. Its first
"Received:" was 208.24.123.10.

That IP I can find at www.MXToolbox.com as being on a number of blocking
lists with Return Codes of 127.0.0.7 and 127.0.0.10. But
www.MXToolbox.com doesn't tell me what the 127 Return Codes mean.

So I went to www.dnsbl.us.sorbs.net and found that 127.0.0.7 means
208.24.123.10 is in the web.dnsbl.sorbs.net database and 127.0.0.10
means it's in the dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net database and, frankly, I still
don't know any more than I did. But I guess I'm getting closer.

Thanks,
Paul
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