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External Block List - http://www.dnsbl.sorbs.net/

dnsbl.net.au imports a subset of zones available from this external dsbl list.

SORBS is a very well maintained database, with extensive searching and scanning facilities for quickly locating and listing open proxies, and many other security affected servers.

05 January, 2004
Having received a number of questions, complaints and queries about the outcomes from some entries in the sorbs zones, which are included in our t1 aggregate zone, we have decided to cease including the sorbs spam.dnsbl.sorbs.net zone, which seemed to be causing the most grief.

What we believe is happening is that compromised end user client PC's, are being used to send spam through their upstream mail server, as they should be. However, when the spammer sends their spam to any of the sorbs spamtrap addresses, the result is that the compromised PC users ISP is listed on the sorbs spam zone.

Please see this sorbs page for more details. using sorbs

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Sorbs Zones included in sorbs.dnsbl.net.au and aggregated into t1.dnsbl.net.au
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   http.dnsbl.sorbs.net - List of Open HTTP Proxy Servers.
  socks.dnsbl.sorbs.net - List of Open SOCKS Proxy Servers.
   misc.dnsbl.sorbs.net - List of open Proxy Servers not listed in
                          the SOCKS or HTTP lists.
   smtp.dnsbl.sorbs.net - List of Open SMTP relay servers.
    web.dnsbl.sorbs.net - List of web (WWW) server which have spammer
                          abused vulnerabilities (e.g. FormMail scripts)
 zombie.dnsbl.sorbs.net - List of networks hijacked from their original
                          owners.  Some already used for spamming.
    dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net - Dynamic IP Address ranges (NOT a Dial Up list!)

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spam.dnsbl.sorbs.net removed from all dnsbl.net.au zones, 05 Jan 2004.
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   spam.dnsbl.sorbs.net - List of hosts that have been noted as sending
                          spam/UCE/UBE to the admins of SORBS.  This
                          zone also contains netblocks of spam supporting
                          service providers, this could be for providing
                          websites, DNS or drop boxes for a spammer.  Spam
                          supporters are added on a 'third strike and you are
                          out' basis, where the third spam will cause the
                          supporter to be blocked.

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Righ Hand Side format, not currently used within dnsbl.net.au
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        rhsbl.sorbs.net - Aggregate zone (contains all RHS zones)
badconf.rhsbl.sorbs.net - List of domain names where the A or MX
                          records point to bad address space.
 nomail.rhsbl.sorbs.net - List of domain names where the owners have
                          indicated no mail should ever be sent with these
                          domains.
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