The wirehub.net domain has not been renewed meaning the registra has taken over the DNS and it is now pointed at a “placeholder” page running adverts … meaning for anyone who was using the wirehub RBL, the lookups are now returning false positives and blocking everything. This is the 2nd open RBL to go down, with ORDB going offline previously
Follow the post I put here to get the Wirehub list removed on exchange 2003
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Posted by: Buzz in Windows, ordb
Well this is a barrel of laughs…
“The problem is that the ORDB blacklist (which was decommissioned on Dec 18 2006) has been reactivated, but in such a way that it returns a positive match for every query. The operators have done this in order to prompt people who were still using the list to remove it from their configuration.“
Source: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/944800.html
At the moment this is effecting our exchange servers, and it’s unclear if this is a legacy smtp event or part of the anti spam software…
Everything is being bounced, needless to say I can tell you working for a company that has over a million emails a day this is NOT GOOD!
If your clients are receiving bounce backs I suggest you contact them immediately, and inform them of the situation.
ORDB SORT YOUR ACT OUT!
I will update as I find a workaround!
UPDATE!!!!
For exchnage 2003 use the following article as a guide (Thanks KERM!):
http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Blacklist_Support_Exchange_2003.html
Remove ORDB! (see below)
(UPDATE: OR remove wirehub: see new post)

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