Rules emporium timeouts

[Scott Silva]

mikea spake the following on 6/7/2007 10:27 AM:
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 10:42:20PM +0530, Dhawal Doshy wrote:
>> James wrote:
>>> Scott Silva wrote:
>>>> It looks like rulesemporium.com might be down again
>>>>  
>>> I see the same thing.
>> it a bot attack.. same for uribl.com and surbl.org
> 
> My understanding, from some private communications, is that           
> spamhaus.org, rulesemporium.com, uribl.com, and surbl.org all came    
> under very heavy DDOS attack about 1700Z yesterday. Spamhaus appears  
> to be up-and-running again; I don't know what they're doing to get    
> around the attack.                                                    
> 
Probably some sort of reactive firewall.

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