Re: [squid-users] Connection refused

Mehmet, Levent (Accenture) wrote:
> Thanks
>
> How would I resolve this as it is blocking sites we need access to ?
>

I would suggest you NOT allow your customers or clients free access to
spamsites. Whoever nul-routed that domain seems to have a good reason
for it.
As a UK government official you should understand when I say Steve has
them Spamhaus listed.
http://www.spamhaus.org/rokso/evidence.lasso?rokso_id=ROK6042

dpbolvw.net appears to be a domain owned by cj.com a subsidiary of
valueclick.com AKA hispeedmedia.com a well-known long-term spammer.
cj.com has with several hundred reports of click-thru spamming under
their belt already for just that site this month. themselves have
several thounsand reports and the more links down the chain the more it
blows out.
(Hint: to have a ROKSO report you *MUST* have been kicked off at least
*three* ISP for spamming abuse.)

Oh and in case you thought they might provide a service, they appear to
be using/selling the *free* google tracker service instead of their own
while claiming to be an 'original marketing information source'.

Amos

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kinkie [mailto:gkinkie@gmail.com]
> Sent: 22 May 2007 14:03
> To: Mehmet, Levent (Accenture)
> Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] Connection refused
>
> On 5/22/07, Mehmet, Levent (Accenture) <Levent.Mehmet@mhra.gsi.gov.uk>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> When I try and go to http://accenture.employeesavings.net/PhoneSpot
>>
>> I get the following error
>>
>>
>> While trying to retrieve the URL:
>> http://www.dpbolvw.net/click-1753432-10411042
>>
>> The following error was encountered:
>>
>> Connection to 127.0.0.1 Failed
>> The system returned:
>>
>> (111) Connection refused The remote host or network may be down.
>> Please try the request again.
>
> Someone has defined, in DNS (but this doesn't seem to be the case) or
> via /etc/hosts the IP address of www.dpbolvw.net to the loopback
> address. Maybe someone is intentionally blackholing that site. Not
> squid's fault or problem in any way.
>
Received on Wed May 23 2007 - 07:51:13 MDT