RBL Error

[Nathan Johanson]

Thanks for the clarification. I figured I probably misunderstood the
mechanisms behind these lists.
-Nathan


> wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> Correct, but that's not how the blacklists are used. To find out if,
> say, 12.34.56.78 is listed in spamcop you look up
>
> 78.56.34.12.bl.spamcop.net
>
> A response of 127.0.0.x means it's listed - NXDOMAIN means it's not.
>
> Mike
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