Tor nodes blocked by e-gold

Michael Holstein michael.holstein at csuohio.edu
Fri Apr 27 18:51:28 UTC 2007


(gaak .. make that 759 queries, 709 NXDOMAIN, and 48 that appear somehow 
.. the rest of what's below is correct).

~Mike.

Michael Holstein wrote:
>> SORBS marks TOR servers as zombie spammers I believe.
> 
> Um, in the interest of settling this argument :
> 
> grep router cached-routers |grep -v signature |awk -F " " '{print "host 
> "$3".dnsbl.sorbs.net"}' |sh
> 
> (most return NXDOMAIN, meaning not listed by SORBS). The ones that do, 
> return the database in which they're listed as the last octet.
> 
>       http.dnsbl.sorbs.net    127.0.0.2
>      socks.dnsbl.sorbs.net    127.0.0.3
>       misc.dnsbl.sorbs.net    127.0.0.4
>       smtp.dnsbl.sorbs.net    127.0.0.5
>       new.spam.dnsbl.sorbs.net    127.0.0.6
>    recent.spam.dnsbl.sorbs.net    127.0.0.6
>       old.spam.dnsbl.sorbs.net    127.0.0.6
>       spam.dnsbl.sorbs.net    127.0.0.6
>    escalations.dnsbl.sorbs.net    127.0.0.6
>        web.dnsbl.sorbs.net    127.0.0.7
>      block.dnsbl.sorbs.net    127.0.0.8
>     zombie.dnsbl.sorbs.net    127.0.0.9
>        dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net    127.0.0.10
>        badconf.rhsbl.sorbs.net    127.0.0.11
>     nomail.rhsbl.sorbs.net    127.0.0.12
> 
> Of the 887 IPs I have in my cached-routers file, 709 return NXDOMAIN. 
> The others :
> 
> 0    http.dnsbl.sorbs.net
> 0    socks.dnsbl.sorbs.net
> 0    misc.dnsbl.sorbs.net
> 0    smtp.dnsbl.sorbs.net
> 2    *.spam.dnsbl.sorbs.net
> 0    web.dnsbl.sorbs.net
> 0    block.dnsbl.sorbs.net
> 0    zombie.dnsbl.sorbs.net
> 46    dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net
> 0    badconf.rhsbl.sorbs.net
> 0    nomail.rhsbl.sorbs.net
> 
> So, according to SORBS, they're blacklisted because they're in dynamic 
> IP ranges
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Michael Holstein CISSP GCIA
> Information Security Administrator
> Cleveland State University
> 



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