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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by R - elists <li...@abbacomm.net> on 2011/11/07 06:15:40 UTC

old old rdns localhost issue...

some of you, like we did, probably noticed long ago that some ip addys rdns
to "localhost"

example

113.166.175.153

dig -x 113.166.175.153

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;153.175.166.113.in-addr.arpa.  IN      PTR

;; ANSWER SECTION:
153.175.166.113.in-addr.arpa. 86353 IN  PTR     localhost.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
166.113.in-addr.arpa.   86353   IN      NS      vdc-hn01.vnn.vn.
166.113.in-addr.arpa.   86353   IN      NS      hcm-server1.vnn.vn.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
vdc-hn01.vnn.vn.        2019    IN      A       203.162.0.11
hcm-server1.vnn.vn.     2019    IN      A       203.162.4.1

for those of you who are not rejecting, or can not reject them at smtp time
like we are, is there a rule for this ???

 - rh


Re: old old rdns localhost issue...

Posted by John Hardin <jh...@impsec.org>.
On Sun, 6 Nov 2011, R - elists wrote:

> some of you, like we did, probably noticed long ago that some ip addys rdns
> to "localhost"

Yup.

> for those of you who are not rejecting, or can not reject them at smtp time
> like we are, is there a rule for this ???

Yup.

http://ruleqa.spamassassin.org/20111105-r1197902-n/RDNS_LOCALHOST/detail

No hits spam or ham in the current masscheck corpora, but it is in the 
current rules update:

50_scores.cf:score RDNS_LOCALHOST 3.700 0.969 2.345 0.001
72_active.cf:##{ RDNS_LOCALHOST
72_active.cf:header         RDNS_LOCALHOST  X-Spam-Relays-External =~ /^\[ 
ip=(?!127)\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+ rdns=localhost(?:\.localdomain)? /i
72_active.cf:describe       RDNS_LOCALHOST  Sender's public rDNS is 
"localhost"
72_active.cf:##} RDNS_LOCALHOST


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