Hey

I have been receiving erros in my logs about the IP address 244.254.254.254. I did a google search, and found out that Infinite-Monkeys stopped doing their DNS spam blacklist.

Sites said he was getting DoS'd alot by spammers, so he shut down the black list. Then people kept checking the list, so he has it reply with the bogus IP 244.254.254.254.

I did some checking, and found out MailScanner was setup to use this list. If you are getting this error too, here is what I did:

SSH in as root, and goto your MailScanner Directory
# cd /etc/MailScanner
Then open up MailScanner.conf
# pico -w MailScanner.conf
Do a search for "Spam List = "
[CTRL] + W, enter "Spam List = " (no quotes), and hit enter
Just remove the Infinite-Monkeys entry from that line
Then Save & Exit
[CTRL] + X, Y, Enter
Then restart MailScanner
# /etc/init.d/MailScanner restart

Hope this helps someone out ;-)

Tim

If I am not mistaken, if that is the only blacklist on that line and you remove it, you will not be using that function at all.

There are some other threads about replacing that line with other information such as spamhaus or spamcop I belive. And if memory serves me, you would also need to edit another file. Something along the lines of spam.lists.conf in the MainScanner directory.

Hey

I'm not sure how the original was, I may have added more to the line. As for editing the other file, I think thats more of just storing the urls in variables.. I didn't delete it in there.

Tim