URIBL_SBL timeouts running MS in debug mode.

[Scott Silva]

on 11/22/2007 7:17 AM Steve Freegard spake the following:
> Alex Broens wrote:
>> What happens if you do:
>>
>> host -tA 2.0.0.127.zen.spamhaus.org
>>
>>
>> Reply should be
>>
>>
> 
> hehehe - that gave me a good laugh ;-)
> 
> I think Alex meant - reply should be something like:
> 
> [root at speedy ~]# host 2.0.0.127.zen.spamhaus.org
> 2.0.0.127.zen.spamhaus.org has address 127.0.0.10
> 2.0.0.127.zen.spamhaus.org has address 127.0.0.2
> 2.0.0.127.zen.spamhaus.org has address 127.0.0.4
> 
> If you get a timeout instead, then you've been firewalled by Spamhaus 
> (see http://www.spamhaus.org/organization/dnsblusage.html) and you'll 
> need to purchase a datafeed from them or stop querying the lists.
> 
> I believe the SpamAssassin folks are going to be disabling the Spamhaus 
> tests by default in the next major release due to this policy (see 
> http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5641).
> 
> Kind regards,
> Steve.
I just found my servers are both firewalled, although we have less than a 
tenth of the traffic that they say is allowed. I guess that they found that 
money is more important than the good fight! I guess I'm back to the njabl and 
the dsbl.

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