Anyone seeing this at RBLs

[Julian Field]

At 21:07 05/05/2004, you wrote:
>Anyone else timing out to RBL's?  One example and there are quite a few
>others not listed.
>
>maillog
>
>May  5 13:53:23 saturn MailScanner[28169]: RBL Check spamhaus.org timed
>out and was killed, consecutive failure 2 of 7
>
>
>[root at saturn joan]# ping spamhaus.org
>ping: unknown host spamhaus.org
>[root at saturn joan]# ping sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org
>ping: unknown host sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org
>[root at saturn joan]# ping sbl.spamhaus.org
>ping: unknown host sbl.spamhaus.org
>[root at saturn joan]# ping xbl.spamhaus.org
>ping: unknown host xbl.spamhaus.org

These are domain names, they aren't hosts, so you can't ping them. There is
no physical computer called "xbl.spamhaus.org".
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