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Gmail got Blacklisted

/ by / Mr. P / on / August 20, 2010 @ 10:44 am
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It seems as if, earlier today, Gmail was listed on the popular Spamhaus blacklist. Supposedly, according to Sucuri Security, the reason for being blacklisted was because they were listed for hosting "Candian Pharmacy" documents on their Google Docs site. This block of IP addresses is in the same block as Gmail, and Spamhaus just decided to blacklist the whole /24. More details of the incident are here: http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/sbl.lasso?query=SBL95011

As of now, they are not currently listed in Spamhaus, but Tiopan returns a positive (127.0.0.2) result for Gmail:

root@fenris:~# host gmail.com
gmail.com has address 74.125.227.22
gmail.com has address 74.125.227.23
gmail.com has address 74.125.227.21
gmail.com has address 74.125.227.24
gmail.com mail is handled by 10 alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
gmail.com mail is handled by 20 alt2.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
gmail.com mail is handled by 40 alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
gmail.com mail is handled by 30 alt3.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
gmail.com mail is handled by 5 gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
root@fenris:~# nslookup 21.227.125.74.bl.tiopan.com
Server:         72.14.179.5
Address:        72.14.179.5#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:   21.227.125.74.bl.tiopan.com
Address: 127.0.0.2
 

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