Dialup Zones

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This is a list of DNS zones that identify Internet hosts that use dialup connections or other short-term dynamically assigned IP addresses. Many mail system administrators choose to refuse direct SMTP connections from these sources for several of reasons: Thus, refusing direct SMTP connections from dialup computers forces them to use their ISP's mail relay. This makes part of the spam problem much easier for everyone (except the spammers, of course!) to deal with.

This list is much less complete than the MAPS DULSM, but it does a good job, requires very little maintenance, and is freely available. The da.uu.net and ipt.aol.com entries alone cover a substantial portion of the Internet's dialup space.

To use with sendmail, simply include the current list of dialup zones in the access file with REJECT as the action.


This document was last updated by Jeff Makey <jeff@sdsc.edu> on 10 September 2002.