Spamhaus RBLs

[ram]

On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 10:08 +0100, Chris Hardy wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> Is it me, or are the spamhaus RBL lists not responding today?
> I cannot ping zen.spamhaus.org or xbl.spamhaus.org - DNS says unknown host
> 
> I've tried this from multiple ISP connections.
> 
> This has resulted in a much larger increase in spam getting through to 
> my systems.


AFAIK Spamhaus offers its datafeed by rsync for free , for non
commercial use for a small number of users 

Just set up a local rbldnsd and get the feeds. And the performance will
be much better