MS Hanging

[Mikael Syska]

Hi,

Little off-topic ....

Caching dns would also lower the traffic ... or am I wrong here ?

Is it safe to only make spams get one hit from the ZEN-SPAMHAUS, I can 
see that the default in the MailScanner.conf is 1 ?

// ouT

Randal, Phil wrote:
> cbl.abuseat.org by itself gets a huge proportion of the spam here.
>
> Remember that spamhaus requires a subscription for high-volume users.
>
> >From http://www.spamhaus.org/zen/index.lasso 
>
> "Use of the Spamhaus DNSBLs via DNS queries to our public DNSBL mirrors is free for low-traffic mail servers serving less than 100 users. Use of the Spamhaus DNSBLs by commercial or corporate networks, ISPs and ESPs, requires a subscription to Spamhaus's Data Feed service."
>
> Cheers,
>
> Phil
> --
> Phil Randal
> Network Engineer
> Herefordshire Council
> Hereford, UK  
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
>> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
>> Of Kai Schaetzl
>> Sent: 02 August 2007 13:31
>> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
>> Subject: Re: MS Hanging
>>
>> UxBoD wrote on Thu, 2 Aug 2007 10:30:16 +0100 (BST):
>>
>>     
>>> Spam List = ORDB-RBL spamhaus.org spamhaus-XBL spamhaus-ZEN 
>>>       
>> spamcop.net NJABL CBL 
>> RSL DSBL BLITZEDALL SORBS-DNSBL SORBS-HTTP SORBS-SOCKS 
>> SORBS-MISC SORBS-SMTP SORBS-WEB 
>> SORBS-SPAM SORBS-BLOCK SORBS-ZOMBIE SORBS-DUL SORBS-RHSBL
>>
>> Oh, my god. No wonder, that it's slow. Compile some stats 
>> which of these lists really
>> give you an advantage. You will see that after two or three 
>> good ones any other will 
>> only add marginally and are not worth the query as those few 
>> are caught by SA, anyway.
>>
>> Especially this is totally insane (sorry):
>> SORBS-DNSBL SORBS-HTTP SORBS-SOCKS SORBS-MISC SORBS-SMTP 
>> SORBS-WEB SORBS-SPAM 
>> SORBS-BLOCK SORBS-ZOMBIE SORBS-DUL SORBS-RHSBL
>>
>> These lists are all included in SORBS-DNSBL.
>>
>> And, as Martin, says, ZEN includes all Spamhaus lists *plus* CBL.
>>
>>
>> Kai
>>
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