OT: cut off by spamhaus free use?

[Scott Silva]

on 12/2/2007 2:04 PM Glenn Steen spake the following:
> On 02/12/2007, Jeff A. Earickson <jaearick at colby.edu> wrote:
>> Gang,
>>
>> Has anybody ever had SpamHaus cut off the free use of DNSBL
>> for your site?  All of our inbound email started getting this:
>>
>> reject=451 4.4.3 Temporary lookup failure of [IP number] at zen.spamhaus.org
>>
>> on Saturday morning.  I removed Zen usage from my sendmail
>> config and my email started flowing in again.  I looked at their
>> usage page (http://www.spamhaus.org/organization/dnsblusage.html)
>> and believe I meet their qualifications (I use caching DNS on our
>> sendmail box too).  But maybe they disagree; I haven't heard back.
>>
>> Anybody else ever had the rug pulled out from under their email?
>>
>> BTW, MailScanner and SpamAssassin are doing a great job of killing
>> spam, even without any DNSBL in the mix.  Today's numbers so far:
>>
>> Total messages scanned:        23070
>> Total spams tagged:            12240
>> Total spams delivered:         715
>> Total spams deleted:           11612
>>
>> Way to go Julian!  We hope you get your new liver for Christmas too.
>>
>> Jeff Earickson
>> Colby College
> 
> Several have reported this. Some have been able to pinpoint this to
> the use of forwarders (that is, their ISP got blocked), some
> haven't....  In which case they seem to be doing excessive lookups to
> the volume they have, or.... Spamhaus simply is mistaken... And where
> are you supposed to complain then...?:-)
> 
> Cheers
I complained to their e-mail address, but I am not holding my breath.

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