We're having issues witht them periodically blocking our access to the
site - which has happened since we have a failure.

I have a version of the lists there now, but I think it may actually
be time to retire that example from spamd.conf - those lists
just aren't as useful as they were in past years.


2009/11/24 Rod Whitworth <glisten@witworx.com>:
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> On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:55:49 -0800, Jason LaRiviere wrote:
>
>>Hello all,
>>
>>Willing to suffer scorn if I've missed a commit message or previous post on
>>the matter, but I've been getting a 404 for these two lists since
>>approximately the `unplanned maintenance' www event of a few weeks ago.
Shall
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>>I comment them out of spamd.conf, or will they make their return?
>>
>>Regards,
>>Jason.
>>
>
> A long long time ago we had a similar problem. My solution has stayed
> in place ever since.
> Cobbled up Q&D but it works.
> script = okean:
> #!/bin/sh
> ftp -o /var/db/china.txt http://www.okean.com/chinacidr.txt
> ftp -o /var/db/korea.txt http://www.okean.com/koreacidr.txt
>
> crontab entry for okean:
> 26      14      *       *       *       /root/bin/okean
>
> part of spamd.conf:
> 8>< snip--------------------------------------------------------------
> # Mirrored from http://www.okean.com/chinacidr.txt
> china:\
>        :black:\
>        :msg="SPAM. Your address %A appears to be from China\n\
>        See http://www.okean.com/asianspamblocks.html for more
> details":\
>        :method=file:\
>        :file=/var/db/china.txt:
>
> # Mirrored from http://www.okean.com/koreacidr.txt
> korea:\
>        :black:\
>        :msg="SPAM. Your address %A appears to be from Korea\n\
>        See http://www.okean.com/asianspamblocks.html for more
> details":\
>        :method=file:\
>        :file=/var/db/korea.txt:
> 8><end snip-------------
>
> No more problems since.
> Hints: pick some oddball time for the  cronjob, once a day is fine as
> changes are rare.
> I use a similar technique for nixspam too.
>
> Good enough for you?
> You're welcome!
>
> I think that the people running that site don't realise that it is
> better for OpenBSD to mirror it than to have us all hitting it daily
> but you just can't get through to some people.....
>
>
>
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>
> Rod/
> ---
> This life is not the real thing.
> It is not even in Beta.
> If it was, then OpenBSD would already have a man page for it.