On 17/12/24 03:29, George at Clug wrote:
On Tuesday, 17-12-2024 at 06:08 Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
On Monday 16 December 2024 08:09:08 am Poon Weng Chee wrote:
Dear Debian,
We have discovered that the public IP address of deb.debian.org, which is used
to access the Debian repositories, is listed as a threat or malicious IP
address onhttp://brightcloud.com/support/lookup.php.
Despite attempting to submit this IP address for removal from the threat list,
it has been repeatedly reclassified as a threat or malicious IP address within
a one to two day timeframe.
We suspect that your public IP address may be under attack or being misused by
others. We would appreciate it if you could investigate this matter further.
That kind of thing can be SO annoying...
I was having a great deal of trouble exchanging emails with one particular individual a
while back. Tracing out the trouble it turned out to be this kind of thing. Reportedly
the mail servers that my hosting company was using also had malicious users that were
generating this nonsense, and I was being hit with the result. Their suggestion was
"try again later" when I'd possibly (but not for sure) end up connecting to a
different mail server.
Many email server providers allow users to specificy specific email addresses
that are permitted, by passing their spam filters. This feature has helped me
out one time.
The problem is not email related. The main problem is if your web
browser looks up the IP and sees it listed as malicious. Then it will
put up big warnings and get you to confirm multiple times that you want
to proceed.
For some people it won't be a problem, but for others, particularly
newbies, it means they will not use the site.
