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[Richard Siddall]

Stephen Cox wrote:
> Richard,
>
> I spoke to the domain holder a few weeks ago and he reported that
> everything is working. What exactly is the problem?
>
> Stephen
>

Stephen,

Thanks for asking.  As Mark Sapiro reported on Monday 
(http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/2013-October/100975.html)

> The files and updates at, http://www.mailscanner.eu/emails.* and the
> alternate http://cdn.mailscanner.info/emails.* all seem to be missing.
>
> E.g.
>
> http://www.mailscanner.eu/emails..2013-390
> http://www.mailscanner.eu/emails..2013-391
> http://www.mailscanner.eu/emails..2013-392
> http://www.mailscanner.eu/emails.2013-390.1
> http://www.mailscanner.eu/emails.2013-391.1
> http://www.mailscanner.eu/emails.2013-392.1
>
> and similarly
>
> http://cdn.mailscanner.info/emails..2013-390
> et al
>
> all return 404 even though the 391 (and presumably older) files were
> there just a few hours ago.
>
> This causes ScamNailer and update_bad_phishing_sites to fail as they
> can't retrieve any data.

I'm still seeing the associated error during the hourly run of ScamNailer:

> Updating live file /var/cache/ScamNailer/phishing.emails.list
> cp: cannot stat `/var/cache/ScamNailer/cache//2013-393': No such file or directory
> Cannot read /var/cache/ScamNailer/phishing.emails.list, No such file or directory

This is the patched version of ScamNailer using Mark Sapiro's patch to 
get around the incomplete repair of the data delivery network ("The DNS 
TXT record for emails.msupdate.greylist.bastionmail.com is still not 
being updated." This is from 
http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/2013-May/100746.html).

If you look in the list archives, you will see that several people 
reported a complete failure of the data delivery system back in April
http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/2013-April/100525.html
http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/2013-April/100529.html
http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/2013-April/100536.html

and the data delivery system was not completely repaired:
http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/2013-April/100612.html
http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/2013-May/100681.html
http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/2013-June/100789.html
http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/2013-June/100818.html
http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/2013-July/100851.html
http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/2013-July/100899.html
http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/2013-August/100932.html

I hope this helps.

The meta problem seems to be that whatever monitoring is in place to 
ensure the data delivery network is operational are ineffective.

Regards,

	Richard Siddall