cut off by spamhaus free use?

[Scott Silva]

on 12/3/2007 11:35 AM Denis Beauchemin spake the following:
> Jeff A. Earickson a écrit :
>> On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Jeff Mills wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes!
>>> One of the things I have done in my servers is move the spamhaus list to
>>> the bottom of my list of RBL's.
>>> That way, spamhaus is only queried when none of the others match. I find
>>> that spamcop gets more than the others.
> I did the same and so far it is still working:
> cbl.abuseat.org
> dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net
> web.dnsbl.sorbs.net
> relays.dnsbl.sorbs.net
> rhsbl.dnsbl.sorbs.net
> bl.spamcop.net
> list.dsbl.org
> zen.spamhaus.org
I would move cbl right above zen, as they also have a usage limit.
> 
> So far today, they blocked:
>           bl.spamcop.net :  13188 (  5 %)
>          cbl.abuseat.org : 131946 ( 57 %)
>      dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net :  57306 ( 25 %)
>            list.dsbl.org :   1320 (  0 %)
>   relays.dnsbl.sorbs.net :     42 (  0 %)
>      web.dnsbl.sorbs.net :   1225 (  0 %)
>         zen.spamhaus.org :  24122 ( 10 %)
What do you run to get this info? Or was it hand compiled? I have been looking 
for something I could get some good stats with.
> 
> Even though Zen is called last it still blocks 10% of all connections...
> 
> Maybe they are more lenient if you don't query addresses that can be 
> found in CBL? I also run a caching nameserver.
> 
> Some of my sorbs lists don't seem to block much... but using 
> safe.dnsbl.sorbs.net was blocking too many legit servers...
> 
> Denis
> 


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