Fwd: [spamtools] Decomissioning a DNS anti-spam list {Scanned}

[Mike Zanker]

On 19 March 2004 22:01 -0500 Chris Sweeney <csweeney at OSUBUCKS.ORG>
wrote:

> Why not just remove the DNS entries from his server so people won't
> be using his system.  IE remove *.relays.monkeys.com from his DNS so
> it just doesn't resolve?

Because of the way that recursive DNS queries work. His DNS server(s)
still have to be queried to find out that it doesn't resolve.

Mike.