Adding Documentation to Linux-SXS

[David Bandel]

On 12/9/06, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/7/06, David Bandel <david.bandel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 12/7/06, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > >
> > > > Try hinfo.  It shows who has you listed and why.  Some sites, notably
> > > > abuse.net, seems to list a lot of site incorrectly.  For example, it
> > > > has pananix.com listed for not having a postmaster address.  The
> > > > postmaster and MAILER-DAEMON addresses, as abuse and spam are in _all_
> > > > my domains as the first aliases.  Most likely, they check from a
> > > > system that's blacklisted, although those addresses aren't included in
> > > > the blacklist checks, but something is wrong at their end.
> > >
> > > Easy for you to say.  Hinfo looks interesting, but I'm mildly baffled
> > > by the output, particularly by how my host is identified remotely as
> > > 0.0.0.2 or 127.1.0.1, 65.77.130.111, etc.  Take a look:  Notice also
> > > that SBC is my ISP, so their showing up in whois is normal.  The
> > > 64.160.0.0/12 address seems to blacklist me along with a huge slab of
> > > the ISP. What am I to make of all this?
> >
> > I shouldn't have to say it:  RTFM.  hinfo returns more than just
> > blacklist info (which you would know if you read the fine manual).
> > The ASN number has nothing to do with blacklisting.
>
> You don't have to say it, but you might give a pointer to the FM.
> Googling hinfo got me to the software, but nothing else.  The packaged
> man page is minimal, to say the least.  So what FM should I be
> reading?

I have a FM (man page) on my system that came with hinfo, and it
presented enough info for me to discern that much more than blacklist
information was provided.  In fact, the DESCRIPTION of the software
doesn't even mention blacklists until the fourth para.

>
> In particular, what should I make of those odd generic IP addresses?

well 127.0.0.x goes nowhere.  127.0.0.0/8 is localhost.  0.0.0.x is
also non-existant.  Now your 65.77.130.111 is in your block
64.160.0.0/12.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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