Spamhaus issues?

[Jeff Mills]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Res
> Sent: Wednesday, 8 August 2007 3:45 PM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Spamhaus issues?
> 
> On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Jeff Mills wrote:
> 
> > Is anyone having issues with Spamhaus at the moment?
> > I'm unable to do any lookups from three different servers.
> >
> > postfix/smtpd[21696]: warning: 118.17.51.190.zen.spamhaus.org: RBL 
> > lookup error: Host or domain name not found. Name service error for 
> > name=118.17.51.190.zen.spamhaus.org type=A: Host not found, 
> try again
> >
> > I cant actually look up zen.spamhaus.org itself, nor sbl or xbl.
> 
> 
> Works fine here
> 
> ~$ host 118.17.51.190.zen.spamhaus.org
> 118.17.51.190.zen.spamhaus.org has address 127.0.0.11 
> 118.17.51.190.zen.spamhaus.org has address 127.0.0.4
> 
> -- 
> 
> Cheers
> Res

Thanks Res,
After looking through their website, I think we may have actually been
firewalled due to excess useage.
I wasn't aware that it was a subscription service for businesses.
Today one of our domains was used for forged addresses, so our traffic
has increased substantially.