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Re: [Asrg] DNSBL and IPv6

Hal Murray <hmurray@megapathdsl.net> Thu, 25 October 2012 02:00 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Asrg] DNSBL and IPv6
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John Levine said:
> Depends what your intentions are.  If you're trying to do listwashing, you
> may wall see DNSBL listings rather than bounces.  I like VERP just fine and
> my lists use it, but I do get back FBL reports that are munged to the point
> where I can't tell who complained.  But they rarely munge the IP. 

People trying to avoid listwashing will learn to munge the bottom bits of any 
IPv6 address.

Similarly, DNSBLs could mask off the bottom bits of any IPv6 address that 
they expose.


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