Re: [address-policy-wg] "Dirty" recycled network assigned

["Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet" Woeber@localhost]

Florian Weimer wrote:

> * Wilfried Woeber:
> 
> 
>>>You also need to rewrite Received: lines, to remove records of the
>>>supposedly infected address space.  And you should do this on a separate
>>>server on a dedicated prefix, so that misguided blacklist operators do
>>>not retaliate against your main mail service for doing that. 8-(
>>
>>I really don't get that one :-)
> 
> 
> Which part?

Sorry Florian,

I got somewhat mixed up between "received:" and "changed:" :-/

My apologies...
-W

> For certain mail relays, filter rules are applied to hosts behind it,
> not to the relay itself.
> 
> 
>>I suppose the NCC manufactures a completely fresh and shiny
>>address space object when giving out "previously used" address
>>space?
> 
> 
> They do.  But blacklist operators do not seem to care.  (Same for some
> routing database operators, BTW.)
> 
> Apparently, it's also possible to wipe clean the record on your inetnum:
> objects, so it's understandable that the blacklist operators do not
> automatically wipe all the records from their databases just because the
> object appears to be new.
>