DSBL
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Distributed Server Boycott List
WARNING: Service Out Of Order
Article included for historical purposes only.
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List is now offline as on May 2008. Do not Use
Quote from http://dsbl.org/:
It looks like the database can not be recovered from the old hard disks - both disks in the RAID1 array are totally broken. Because we absolutely do not want to lose removal requests, we will not restart the list from an older backup. If the list gets continued (interest has been expressed by several organizations), it will start with an empty database.
DSBL is GONE
DSBL is GONE and highly unlikely to return. Please remove it from your mail server configuration.
DSBL was a blocklist specialized in listing open relays and open proxies. To put it simply, DSBL listed IP addresses of computers that could be tricked into sending spam by anybody. This was a very successful strategy. Nowadays open relays and open proxies are rare, spammers hardly ever use them any more and no software seems to come with an open-by-default policy any more.
list.dsbl.org contains only documented relaying spamsources which have been verified by trusted users and may be used for blocking on (small) shared servers.
Both 'multihop' and 'unconfirmed' should be used only with scoring systems like SpamAssassin.
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[edit] Listing Criteria
- Verified relaying spamsources
[edit] Removal
Automated via website, by the listed RIR-contact only.
[edit] Zones
- list.dsbl.org
- multihop.dsbl.org (DANGEROUS!)
- unconfirmed.dsbl.org: Using this list risks providing false positives. Many free isp and email services are listed and will be considered spam sources.
