pageoneresults - 5:11 pm on Mar 27, 2008 (gmt 0)

2008-03-26

Spam blocker rises from the dead to bite lax email administrators
[itwire.com...]

Administrators of email systems should have stopped querying the database (relays.ordb.org) in December 2006 when it shut down, but some failed to do so. That was no problem until today, queries were simply rejected, but now the address of any email server presented is being returned as an open relay. This results in the querying system rejecting all incoming mails from that server.