Spamhaus problems (was: AT&T blocking RBL lookups)

[Kai Schaetzl]

Jan Elmqvist Nielsen wrote on         Sun, 18 Apr 2004 00:50:13 +0200:

> All mails from my servers is been marked as RBL by spamhaus-XBL??
>
> When I looked the ipaddresses up the are not im there databases?
> I have remove spamhaus-XBL fra mailscanner.conf
>
> It has just happened after midnight
>

Yep, noticed this as well around that time. xbl-rbl refused one of our own
machines as 127.0.0.4. They must have been under heavy attack,
www.spamhaus.org was to 99,9% not reachable for several hours and checking
now it seems they are again unreachable. Around midnight this must have
had some effect on the rbl lookups as well. I had just finished removing
it from the first sendmail.cf when lookups were back to normal, so I left
it as is.
AFAIK Spamhaus has some mirroring arrangements for the RBL and I suppose
it took some time to set them into effect. So, that's why it returned
unreliable results for a short time.
I'd really wish there was a trojan which would nuke down spammers main
operations the same way, one by one.


Kai

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