RBL timing out {Scanned by WPPi.Net}

[smhickel]

This is a great question. Just this evening I asked myself the same
question. I locked down my mailscanner with IPTABLES and tried to figure
out what port the RDBL's were using and what port the clamav service
used to update itself?

Steve

SW wrote:

>Matt,
>
>Our firewall blocks entire IP blocks with no traffic coming-in or going-out.
>DNS is premitted to go out but only to those IP blocks which are not
>blocked. The only way I see I can get RBL to work is by inputting an IP
>address/range for the ORDB-RBL servers that mailscanner/spamassassin
>contact.
>
>Thanks,
>
>SW
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Matt Kettler" <mkettler at EVI-INC.COM>
>To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 4:20 PM
>Subject: Re: RBL timing out {Scanned by WPPi.Net}
>
>
>At 04:08 PM 12/23/2003, SW wrote:
>
>
>>I'm trying to figure out what ip address and port(s) I need to open up on
>>
>>
>my
>
>
>>firewall to allow the use of ORDB-RBL w/ Mailscanner and spamassassin:
>>
>>MailScanner: RBL Check ORDB-RBL timed out and was killed, consecutive
>>failure 1 of 7
>>
>>
>
>It's a DNS query. You need to be able to do DNS resolution.
>
>If your MS/SA machine is it's own resolving server, then it needs to be
>able to query to arbitrary DNS servers.
>
>If your MS/SA machine uses another server for resolution it needs to be
>able to talk to that DNS server, and that DNS server needs to be able to
>talk to query DNS servers.
>
>You can tell what machine is being used as a resolver by looking at
>/etc/resolv.conf. A machine that's it's own resolver will have "localhost"
>
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