Re: DNS RBL error

2010-04-20 Thread Steve
Original-Nachricht Datum: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:52:57 -0500 Von: Noel Jones njo...@megan.vbhcs.org An: postfix-users@postfix.org Betreff: Re: DNS RBL error On 4/19/2010 8:22 PM, Steve wrote: Original-Nachricht Datum: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:03:51 -0400

DNS RBL error

2010-04-19 Thread donovan jeffrey j
Greetings i have been seeing tons of errors coming from spamhaus, it seems it's not resolving. at least for me. is anyone else having any problems ? Apr 19 08:21:48 mail2 postfix/smtpd[21485]: warning: 130.60.141.41.zen.spamhaus.org: RBL lookup error: Host or domain name not found. Name

Re: DNS RBL error

2010-04-19 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* donovan jeffrey j dono...@beth.k12.pa.us: Greetings i have been seeing tons of errors coming from spamhaus, it seems it's not resolving. at least for me. is anyone else having any problems ? You might have been blocked because you exceeded the limits for free usage. -- Ralf Hildebrandt

Re: DNS RBL error

2010-04-19 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Apr 19, 2010, at 8:41 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * donovan jeffrey j dono...@beth.k12.pa.us: Greetings i have been seeing tons of errors coming from spamhaus, it seems it's not resolving. at least for me. is anyone else having any problems ? You might have been blocked because you

Re: DNS RBL error

2010-04-19 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* donovan jeffrey j dono...@beth.k12.pa.us: I certainly do not want to exceed any limits, how do i avoid that ? Well, how big is your server? -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin Hindenburgdamm 30 |

Re: DNS RBL error

2010-04-19 Thread John Peach
On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:53:03 -0400 donovan jeffrey j dono...@beth.k12.pa.us wrote: On Apr 19, 2010, at 8:41 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * donovan jeffrey j dono...@beth.k12.pa.us: Greetings i have been seeing tons of errors coming from spamhaus, it seems it's not resolving. at

Re: DNS RBL error

2010-04-19 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Apr 19, 2010, at 8:54 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * donovan jeffrey j dono...@beth.k12.pa.us: I certainly do not want to exceed any limits, how do i avoid that ? Well, how big is your server? oh it's about this high - - - j/k this system in question picks up mail ( primary MX ) for

Re: DNS RBL error

2010-04-19 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* donovan jeffrey j dono...@beth.k12.pa.us: this system in question picks up mail ( primary MX ) for about 2000 users. This should well be within the limits. We're execeeding the limit at about 30k users. Maybe you're using your ISPs DNS forwarder? -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT |

Re: DNS RBL error

2010-04-19 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Apr 19, 2010, at 8:58 AM, John Peach wrote: On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:53:03 -0400 donovan jeffrey j dono...@beth.k12.pa.us wrote: On Apr 19, 2010, at 8:41 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * donovan jeffrey j dono...@beth.k12.pa.us: Greetings i have been seeing tons of errors coming from

Re: DNS RBL error

2010-04-19 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Apr 19, 2010, at 9:03 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * donovan jeffrey j dono...@beth.k12.pa.us: this system in question picks up mail ( primary MX ) for about 2000 users. This should well be within the limits. We're execeeding the limit at about 30k users. Maybe you're using your ISPs

Re: DNS RBL error

2010-04-19 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* donovan jeffrey j dono...@beth.k12.pa.us: On Apr 19, 2010, at 9:03 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * donovan jeffrey j dono...@beth.k12.pa.us: this system in question picks up mail ( primary MX ) for about 2000 users. This should well be within the limits. We're execeeding the limit

Re: DNS RBL error

2010-04-19 Thread John Peach
On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:09:38 -0400 donovan jeffrey j dono...@beth.k12.pa.us wrote: On Apr 19, 2010, at 9:03 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * donovan jeffrey j dono...@beth.k12.pa.us: this system in question picks up mail ( primary MX ) for about 2000 users. This should well be

Re: DNS RBL error

2010-04-19 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Apr 19, 2010, at 9:15 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * donovan jeffrey j dono...@beth.k12.pa.us: On Apr 19, 2010, at 9:03 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * donovan jeffrey j dono...@beth.k12.pa.us: this system in question picks up mail ( primary MX ) for about 2000 users. This should

Re: DNS RBL error

2010-04-19 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* John Peach post...@johnpeach.com: Your nslookup shows you using 207.172.3.20 as a nameserver: 20.3.172.207.in-addr.arpa name = auth1.dns.rcn.net Your ISP's nameserver. You need to run your own, so that you query spamhaus directly. They are counting all the hits from RCN. apt-get

Re: DNS RBL error

2010-04-19 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* donovan jeffrey j dono...@beth.k12.pa.us: ins2:~ root# cat /etc/resolv.conf search beth.k12.pa.us nameserver 10.135.1.2 nameserver 209.96.96.2 nameserver 207.172.3.20 ins2:~ root# nslookup zen.spamhaus.org Server: 207.172.3.20 Address:207.172.3.20#53 ** server can't

Re: DNS RBL error

2010-04-19 Thread Steve Linford
On 19 Apr 2010, at 14:53, donovan jeffrey j wrote: On Apr 19, 2010, at 8:41 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * donovan jeffrey j dono...@beth.k12.pa.us: Greetings i have been seeing tons of errors coming from spamhaus, it seems it's not resolving. at least for me. is anyone else having any

Re: DNS RBL error

2010-04-19 Thread /dev/rob0
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 08:31:19AM -0400, donovan jeffrey j wrote: abuseat.org is working fine. I'm only having trouble with zen. Apr 19 08:29:12 mail2 postfix/smtpd[21642]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from unknown[117.201.68.108]: 554 Service unavailable; Client host [117.201.68.108] blocked

Re: DNS RBL error

2010-04-19 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Apr 19, 2010, at 12:36 PM, /dev/rob0 wrote: On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 08:31:19AM -0400, donovan jeffrey j wrote: abuseat.org is working fine. I'm only having trouble with zen. Apr 19 08:29:12 mail2 postfix/smtpd[21642]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from unknown[117.201.68.108]: 554 Service

Re: DNS RBL error

2010-04-19 Thread Wietse Venema
donovan jeffrey j: by the time i typed this email. i got an authoritative answer; dns:~ root# nslookup 2.0.0.127.zen.spamhaus.org Server: 209.96.96.2 Address:209.96.96.2#53 You should do such tests as a non-root user. Postfix does not query the DNS as root. Wietse

Re: DNS RBL error ::solved::

2010-04-19 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Apr 19, 2010, at 12:58 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: donovan jeffrey j: by the time i typed this email. i got an authoritative answer; dns:~ root# nslookup 2.0.0.127.zen.spamhaus.org Server: 209.96.96.2 Address:209.96.96.2#53 You should do such tests as a non-root user.

Re: DNS RBL error ::solved::

2010-04-19 Thread /dev/rob0
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 01:09:28PM -0400, donovan jeffrey j wrote: i don't think I did anything other than stop lookups for a bit. thanks for your assistance. Give thanks to the LORD[1], perhaps. He works in mysterious ways, or so I hear. :) [1] LinfORD PS: Seriously. I doubt this is solved.

Re: DNS RBL error

2010-04-19 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Ralf Hildebrandt put forth on 4/19/2010 8:29 AM: * John Peach post...@johnpeach.com: Your nslookup shows you using 207.172.3.20 as a nameserver: 20.3.172.207.in-addr.arpa name = auth1.dns.rcn.net Your ISP's nameserver. You need to run your own, so that you query spamhaus directly.

Re: DNS RBL error

2010-04-19 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Apr 19, 2010, at 3:07 PM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: Rather test with: 2.0.0.127.zen.spamhaus.org which should return: 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 2.0.0.127.zen.spamhaus.org has address 127.0.0.10 yes this is working

Re: DNS RBL error

2010-04-19 Thread Steve
Original-Nachricht Datum: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:03:51 -0400 Von: donovan jeffrey j dono...@beth.k12.pa.us An: Ralf Hildebrandt ralf.hildebra...@charite.de CC: Postfix users postfix-users@postfix.org Betreff: Re: DNS RBL error On Apr 19, 2010, at 3:07 PM, Ralf Hildebrandt

Re: DNS RBL error

2010-04-19 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Apr 19, 2010, at 9:22 PM, Steve wrote: You can run that caching DNS where ever you want as long as you secure that DNS. If you use BIND and are using forwarders to your ISP name servers then that caching will not necessarily help much if your ISP's NS are the problem. thanks for the

Re: DNS RBL error

2010-04-19 Thread Noel Jones
On 4/19/2010 8:22 PM, Steve wrote: Original-Nachricht Datum: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:03:51 -0400 Von: donovan jeffrey jdono...@beth.k12.pa.us An: Ralf Hildebrandtralf.hildebra...@charite.de CC: Postfix userspostfix-users@postfix.org Betreff: Re: DNS RBL error On Apr 19, 2010

Re: DNS RBL error

2010-04-19 Thread Noel Jones
On 4/19/2010 8:03 PM, donovan jeffrey j wrote: question on my setup. my primary MX server sits inside my network, with a NATed IP. my postfix config references only the inside network. should i move this MX server outside and use it's public address in the config ? inbound mail gets checked