Re: How I deal with (false positive) IP-address blacklists...

Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews@isc.org> Tue, 09 December 2008 06:49 UTC

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To: Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU>
From: Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews@isc.org>
Subject: Re: How I deal with (false positive) IP-address blacklists...
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:18:29 CDT." <20081209061829.GA13153@mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:49:02 +1100
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In message <20081209061829.GA13153@mit.edu>, Theodore Tso writes:
> 
> This doesn't work for most people, but I had fun composing this
> response, and coming just a few weeks after people claiming that
> IP-based blacklists work well, and rarely result in false positives, I
> felt I just had to share.   :-)
> 
> 						- Ted

	They didn't say why they had blacklisted that IP so there
	is no way to determine if it was a false positive or not.
	That also make the request to phone if the listing was in
	error pretty hard to determine.

	Mark
 
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