Blacklists Compared

5 January 2002

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Survey results for all known public IP-based DNS blacklists. Lookups were done on connecting IP addresses. The "union of most IP zones" line excludes the xbl.selwerd.cx zone because it is too aggressive to be widely useful, and excludes the blocktest.relays.osirusoft.com zone because it is not a blacklist.

HitsDNS Zone
5217(total number of IP addresses tested, including 291 at SDSC)
1775(union of most IP zones)
1425xbl.selwerd.cx
756blackholes.five-ten-sg.com (union of all results)
755bl.spamcop.net
535outputs.orbz.org
392relays.ordb.org
358inputs.orbz.org
347blackholes.five-ten-sg.com (result 127.0.0.4 = unconfirmed opt-in)
287ztl.dorkslayers.com
248blackholes.intersil.net
206blackholes.five-ten-sg.com (result 127.0.0.2 = spam source)
197orbs.dorkslayers.com
125block.blars.org
122flowgoaway.com
104pm0-no-more.compu.net
97blackholes.five-ten-sg.com (result 127.0.0.3 = dialup)
95blackholes.five-ten-sg.com (result 127.0.0.7 = spam haven)
92dev.null.dk
88blacklist.spambag.org
53relays.visi.com
51relays.dorkslayers.com
51relays.osirusoft.com (union of all results)
49ipwhois.rfc-ignorant.org
44spammers.v6net.org
35relays.osirusoft.com (result 127.0.0.2 = relay)
35blocktest.relays.osirusoft.com (not a blacklist!)
35inputs.relays.osirusoft.com
14relays.osirusoft.com (result 127.0.0.4 = spam source)
12blackhole.compu.net
11spamsources.relays.osirusoft.com (result 127.0.0.4 = spam source)
11blackholes.five-ten-sg.com (result 127.0.0.5 = relay output)
11spamsources.relays.osirusoft.com (union of all results)
7spews.relays.osirusoft.com
2dialups.relays.osirusoft.com
2relays.osirusoft.com (result 127.0.0.3 = dialup)

The blackholes.intersil.net zone "lists entrenched spammers, mainsleaze and mainsleaze wannabes who have pestered users at Intersil." The flowgoaway.com zone lists FloNetwork systems. The blackhole.compu.net zone "is primarily for hosts which were not blocked by other blackhole sites and spammed compu.net" and the pm0-no-more.compu.net zone "blocks all pm0 email."


Survey results for all known public domain-name-based DNS blacklists. Lookups were done on the domain names of connecting IP addresses.

HitsDNS Zone
5217(total number of IP addresses whose names were tested, including 291 at SDSC)
777(union of all domain zones)
283postmaster.rfc-ignorant.org
265whois.rfc-ignorant.org
252abuse.rfc-ignorant.org
6dsn.rfc-ignorant.org (zone not intended for this use)


Survey results for all known public domain-name-based DNS blacklists. Lookups were done on SMTP sender domains.

HitsDNS Zone
3540(total number of domains tested, including 88 at SDSC)
351(union of all domain zones)
181whois.rfc-ignorant.org
117abuse.rfc-ignorant.org
69postmaster.rfc-ignorant.org
41dsn.rfc-ignorant.org
6bandwidth-pigs.monkeys.com


This document was last updated by Jeff Makey <jeff@sdsc.edu> on 5 January 2002.