Re: [Asrg] Round 2 of the DNSBL BCP - "collateral damage"

[Matt Sergeant <msergeant at messagelabs.com>]

On 4-Apr-08, at 5:47 PM, Steve Atkins wrote:
>
> On Apr 4, 2008, at 2:42 PM, Matt Sergeant wrote:
>> On 4-Apr-08, at 5:36 PM, Steve Atkins wrote:
>>> It's the eicar problem.
>>
>> Yes. Note that years ago I created GTUBE for this exact problem for
>> content filters. Unfortunately to this day I think only SpamAssassin
>> (and MessageLabs filters) detects it:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTUBE
>
> Yup, GTUBE is perfect for content filters, but I'd be nervous about
> putting it into a DNS query, as some of the characters are unfriendly
> to naive stub resolvers.

Yeah sorry I wasn't clear - I wasn't recommend it for use as a DNSBL  
test.

I like John's suggestion of dnsbl.test.

Matt.

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