URIBL_SBL timeouts running MS in debug mode.

[Martin.Hepworth]

I find them both over FP happy.

Here's what I use...

SORBS
SPAMCOP

Seems to work well with no FP's to note.

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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Scott Silva
> Sent: 23 November 2007 04:03
> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> Subject: Re: URIBL_SBL timeouts running MS in debug mode.
>
> 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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