[BALUG-Admin] postmaster.rfc-clueless.org postmaster@balug.org

[Michael Paoli]

Delisted ... almost?
Well ...
drats ... looks like that was a false *negative*.
*Didn't* show on http://rfc-clueless.org/lookup/balug.org
But did still show in DNS :-/ ... and hit authoritative NS directly to  
aviod any cached issue(s):
$ dig @rbl.saverpigeeks.com. +norecurse +noall +answer  
balug.org.postmaster.rfc-clueless.org. A
balug.org.postmaster.rfc-clueless.org. 4800 IN A 127.0.0.3
$
Reloaded the web page:
http://rfc-clueless.org/lookup/balug.org
And, buggers, still shows there after a reload.
Checking /var/log/exim4/reject* ... nothing relevant since it was  
submitted to be cleared,
only newer failures/rejects logged for postmaster@balug.org are all of  
the type:
auth_server_login authenticator failed for (User)
And even at that, all but one of those from the same IP (from Chile,  
and one from Netherlands).
Also noticed newer /var/log/exim4/spamlog ... checked the newer stuff  
there and
... nothin' there but pure spam.
And, nothing relevant received by postmaster@balug.org.

Will check again further later, but can't find any reason it shouldn't  
have already
cleared by now.

> From: "Rick Moen" <rick@linuxmafia.com>
> Subject: Re: [BALUG-Admin] postmaster.rfc-clueless.org postmaster@balug.org
> Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 10:18:43 -0700

> Quoting Michael Paoli (Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu):
>
>> I think I generally, if not entirely, have callouts (at least SMTP
>> callouts) disabled.
>
> I hope you understand that was just an offhand guess.  I really wouldn't
> know root cause, but your bit about swap seems entirely likely.
>
>> Delisting?  It, understandably, is an automated process - and did
>> submit for delisting.  Nothing's shown up ... yet - not email
>> nor reject.  But it's not super clear how quickly those happen - may
>> take hour(s) to a day or so.
>
> This is annoyingly typical.
>
> It's not unknown for their checking scripts to simply glitch.
>
>> Also, http://multirbl.valli.org/lookup/balug.org.html
>> looks moderately out-of-date.  It shows listing on
>> bl.fmb.la - but in checking source - both web and DNS -
>> that's already cleared.
>
> How odd.  multirbl.valli.org purports to spawn off real-time checks of
> each of the several hundred DNSBLs, or that's my understanding.  Anyway,
> glad checking the individual DNSBL found no listing.