[Mimedefang] IP reputation data collection

Andrzej Adam Filip anfi at onet.eu
Fri Jan 29 03:09:39 EST 2010


"David F. Skoll" <dfs at roaringpenguin.com> wrote:
> For the last couple of months, we've been running an experimental system
> in conjunction with a large CanIt customer to collect and aggregate IP
> address reputation data.  We're looking for MIMEDefang users who want
> to help us collect data; what you'd get in return would be access to
> the aggregated results in RBLDNSD zone file format.
>
> We have a standalone Perl module for reporting events back to us.  To
> use it, you'd instrument your MIMEDefang filter with calls to various
> types of event reporting, such as "host x.y.z.w sent something we
> marked as spam" or "host x.y.z.w attempted to send to an invalid recipient."
>
> The reports go out in UDP and are fairly low-bandwidth; the overhead is about
> 5 bytes for each IPv4 report and 17 for each IPv6 report.
>
> Anyway... if you're interested in contributing, please contact me
> off-list.

For my curiosity: 
It is intended to be more white-list or black-list? 

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[pl>en: Andrew] Andrzej Adam Filip : anfi at onet.eu
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