RBL Error

[Nathan Johanson]

I noticed the same problem, and commented out a lot of the lesser known
blacklists. Also thought about increasing the timeout. Still monitoring
it, but...

During my investigation, I did a simple nslookup of all of the lists I'm
using to make sure they're at least resolving. When I look up
"bl.spamcop.net," no record appears to exist for it.

** server can't find bl.spamcop.net: SERVFAIL

I've tried a few DNS servers, and all resturn nothing for this list. Am I
missing something here, or is this list defunct, or did it change names?
Maybe I'm naive about how these lists are used by Mailscanner and
Sendmail, but I figure the host name should at least resolve to an IP
address. This might explain the timeouts I'm seeing (as this is one of
the lists I didn't comment out).

Does anyone know the story here?

-Nathan


> I've now hashed out all lines in mailscanner.conf relating to spam
> databases, restarted Mailscanner but the problem persists.
>
> Any other thoughts?
>
> Richard Sidlin
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> > Behalf Of David Sullivan
> > Sent: 05 July 2002 23:05
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Re: RBL Error
> >
> >
> > Help Plc said:
> > > I am getting "RBL Checks timed out and were killed" errors in my
> > > maillog after every attempted scan of an email. Any idea how I
> fix this
> > > please?
> >
> > Check the RBL services you have listed with "Spam List =" and check that
> > the services you're using are still operational and that you're
> > able to use
> > them.
> >
> > One thing worth pointing out that is noted in the comments of
> > mailscanner.conf:
> >
> > # MAPS now charge for their services, so you'll have to buy a contract
> > before
> > # attempting to use the next 3 lines.
> > #Spam List = MAPS-RBL, blackholes.mail-abuse.org.
> > ...
> >
> > Other than that you might have a DNS problem of some kind.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > --
> > David Sullivan        IT Services, Barnet College, London
> >                       David.Sullivan at barnet.ac.uk
> >                       020 8275 5036
> >
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