Well, 0 of 6 down, 6 to go.
Spend well over half an hour going over apnews.org's documentation and such. Doesn't seem to be anything abundantly clear about how to rectify the problem. Closest I've come so far seems to be Q42/A42 on http://www.apews.org/?page=faq but that doesn't seem to be particularly clear about what needs to be done where ... something about posting to forum, but doesn't seem clear, and link followed that would seem to be forum they're talking about, doesn't seem to have a forum there ... so not sure where from here. They also seem ambiguous about who can post regarding it - only the net owner? or host/IP "owner"? Seems unclear. I don't and can't control 96.64.0.0/11 nor speak on behalf of same ... and that's no less than 2,097,152 Comcast IP addresses. I only have control over 96.86.170.224/29 - that's just 8 of the IP addresses.
Oh, and current IPv4 of linuxmafia.com is also in that same 96.64.0.0/11.
From: "Michael Paoli" Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: balug.org's IP and domain are on some blocklists - apnews.org Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2020 03:58:50 -0700
apnews.org - looks like "issue" there predates me/BALUG using the IPs: Oooops 96.86.170.229 is currently listed in APEWS :-( Entry matching your Query: E-521546 96.64.0.0/11 CASE: C-20 Spambots, zombies, contaminated CIDR, bad reputation provider History: Entry created 2012-04-14 Note the block, and date. I didn't get any of those IPs until 2019-12-12, and I only have 96.86.170.224/29 and of that, BALUG VM, for IPv4, only has and uses 96.86.170.229. Anyway, will see what I can do, but checked logs and such, and I've got absolutely nothing in there mentioning (regardless of case) "apnews.org". Likewise no matches for "apnews" except for some false positives (spam: health@zaapnews.com)
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2020 21:23:29 -0700 From: Rick Moen rick@linuxmafia.com To: balug-admin@lists.balug.org Subject: Re: [BALUG-Admin] balug.org's IP and domain are on some blocklists Sender: BALUG-Admin balug-admin-bounces@lists.balug.org
One more:
$ dig -t a +short 229.170.86.96.l2.apews.org 127.0.0.2 $
http://www.apews.org/?page=test&C=20&E=521546&ip=96.86.170.229