Spamhaus RBLs

[Matt Hayes]

ram wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 

I thought the feed was pay to use no matter what?  if it isn't, I'd like
information on that.

-matt