RBL Error

[Julian Field]

I have improved the logging so the timeout error message includes the name
of the RBL that was being checked at the time, so you can easily find out
which one is down/unreachable.

At 17:33 06/07/2002, you wrote:
>The one they all list as a test address is 127.0.0.2.
>So you can lookup
>         2.0.0.127.relays.osirusoft.com.
>for example and it will hit.
>
>Note that UK2Net are currently blocking access to osirusoft.com so all you
>RAQ customers will be having nasty consequences that RBL Timeouts at the
>moment unless you comment that line out of your mailscanner.conf files.
>
>At 08:17 06/07/2002, you wrote:
>>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
>> > --
>> > Mike Zanker
>> > Northampton, UK
>> > PGP Public Key: pgp at zanker.org
>
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>Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
>jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
>Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
>                             Southampton SO17 1BJ

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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ