Ah ha!  Good catch!!!

You'd think that they'd simply not reply if the service was
discontinued, not just say all ok....

Thanks as always GrayHat for your insight.


On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 4:49 AM, GrayHat <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I saw this on my system this morning (while testing a new release) -
>> but the mail reached the PB and was blocked. Is there a problem with '
>> exemptions.ahbl.org' ?
>
> dig 2.0.0.127.exemptions.ahbl.org TXT
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;2.0.0.127.exemptions.ahbl.org. IN      TXT
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> 2.0.0.127.exemptions.ahbl.org. 3599 IN  TXT     "This service has been
> retired.
>  Please stop using exemptions.ahbl.org"
>
> clear enough, isn't it :) ? Now, since they retired the service quite
> some
> time ago, yet people kept querying the zone they decided to return a
> "whitelisted" to ALL queries so that someone would eventually realize
> there's something "wrong" <g>
>
> That said... I don't use that list, so got no problems :)
>
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