blacklisted mail

[krysia]

Has anyone else had mail returned as undeliverable because 'host [212.69.36.147] is blacklisted'?

[Rik]

Not me, Krysia. Where was the mail going, ie which domain. I know there are issues from time to time where an ISP gets blacklisted in error. If you can give me a pointer on who's blacklisting, I can ask support to get involved (or feel free to contact them directly).

[Gary]

Has anyone else had mail returned as undeliverable because 'host [212.69.36.147] is blacklisted'?

I have not had this issue either, as Rik said some ISP's get blacklisted, freeserve being one of them which meant mail sometimes got bounced back, but I have had no problems with idnet mail at all, also some Worms/Trojans masquerade as a failed delivery reports so its wise to check carefully.

[somanyholes]

Hey

Have always found this site useful for blacklist information, the ip stated above is not listed on any of the main blacklists at the moment.

http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ip4r.ch?ip=212.69.36.147


have fun

[Gary]

Excellent I knew there was a site you could check with as I had seen it mentioned online but couldn't remember for the life of me what the site was

[somanyholes]

Hey

You may also find the sites/tools below interesting for diagnostics,


http://tools-on.net/ (privacy tools included)
http://www.checkdns.net/quickcheck.aspx (one shot dns check)
http://www.domaintools.com/ (some interesting if not slightly naughty tools, name server spy etc)
http://just-ping.com/ (ping one location from many locations worldwide)
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/ (continents bandwidth)

[Gary]

Hey

You may also find the sites/tools below interesting for diagnostics,


http://tools-on.net/ (privacy tools included)
http://www.checkdns.net/quickcheck.aspx (one shot dns check)
http://www.domaintools.com/ (some interesting if not slightly naughty tools, name server spy etc)
http://just-ping.com/ (ping one location from many locations worldwide)
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/ (continents bandwidth)

Cheers for the heads up, useful information for us all

[Rik]

It would be interesting to get some more information from Krysia, as this seems a very isolated case.

[Gary]

It would be interesting to get some more information from Krysia, as this seems a very isolated case.

I'm wondering if it was malware Rik many worms masquerade as failed delivery reports, then you open them they have you. I know there was a time a few months back when the Stration Worm did that and there is a link here about that and yet another this month http://www.drweb-online.com/en/virus_warning.asp?rpid=

[Rik]

It's quite possible, Gary, and there's always spoofing to consider - so more detail would be useful.

[krysia]

Sorry for the delay in my reply - I haven't had a chance to visit the forum during the last few days.  I was sent this message from my old school:

'This is a test message of the HFA alumni list server.   This is a moderated mailing list.

You can automatically remove or add another e-mail address by following the instructions listed below:

To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to: alumni-off@hfa.bayonne.net

To subscribe another e-mail address, send an e-mail to: alumni-on@hfa.bayonne.net.

--
Joe Chimento
Network Administrator'

I tried to unsubscribe my old address and add my new one, but I got the undeliverable message.  I then tried to e-mail Joe Chimento direct, but that was also undeliverable, so I e-mailed him from my work e-mail address and that went through.  Subsequently, I e-mailed him from my idnet account to thank him for manually changing my address, as a test to see if my mail was still blacklisted, but it seems to have gone through okay.  Perhaps I was blacklisted automatically because the list server knew it had no one from that host on its list?

Thank you all for your valuable help and advice - it's nice to have those websites to check should this happen again, but it does appear to have been a one-off.

[Rik]

Thanks for posting back, Krysia. Hopefully, this has been a one-off, but if it does happen again, if you forward the returned message(s) to support@idnet.net, they can investigate for you.