SOLVED: rbl check being skipped - Postfix logs no error on NXDOMAIN, does on SERVFAIL

2010-01-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Stan Hoeppner put forth on 1/22/2010 1:28 AM: I've wondered for a couple of months why my rbl check is being skipped. I've not seen a spamhaus entry in my logs since Sept 25 '09. Interestingly, postgrey is being called now and then, and it is after the rbl check in main.cf. Any idea why

Re: SOLVED: rbl check being skipped - Postfix logs no error on NXDOMAIN, does on SERVFAIL

2010-01-22 Thread Mikael Bak
Stan Hoeppner wrote: 1. Spamhaus has banned Google Public DNS resolver queries. Stan, Do you have a good enough reason to not run your own name resolver on your front MX machine? IMO relying on third parties for DNS on an MX is bad design. Mikael

Re: SOLVED: rbl check being skipped - Postfix logs no error on NXDOMAIN, does on SERVFAIL

2010-01-22 Thread Wietse Venema
Stan Hoeppner: 1. Spamhaus has banned Google Public DNS resolver queries. I didn't know this until today. If Postfix is using Google Public DNS resolvers, rbl queries to zen.spamhaus.org fail but Postfix (Debian Lenny 2.5.5-1.1) logs NOTHING about it. Not the query attempt, not the

Re: SOLVED: rbl check being skipped - Postfix logs no error on NXDOMAIN, does on SERVFAIL

2010-01-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Mikael Bak put forth on 1/22/2010 7:50 AM: Stan Hoeppner wrote: 1. Spamhaus has banned Google Public DNS resolver queries. Stan, Do you have a good enough reason to not run your own name resolver on your front MX machine? IMO relying on third parties for DNS on an MX is bad design.

Re: SOLVED: rbl check being skipped - Postfix logs no error on NXDOMAIN, does on SERVFAIL

2010-01-22 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 08:34:35AM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Mikael Bak put forth on 1/22/2010 7:50 AM: Stan Hoeppner wrote: 1. Spamhaus has banned Google Public DNS resolver queries. Stan, Do you have a good enough reason to not run your own name resolver on your front MX

Re: SOLVED: rbl check being skipped - Postfix logs no error on NXDOMAIN, does on SERVFAIL

2010-01-22 Thread Noel Jones
On 1/22/2010 6:18 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: 1. Spamhaus has banned Google Public DNS resolver queries. I didn't know this until today. If Postfix is using Google Public DNS resolvers, rbl queries to zen.spamhaus.org fail but Postfix (Debian Lenny 2.5.5-1.1) logs NOTHING about it. Not the

Re: SOLVED: rbl check being skipped - Postfix logs no error on NXDOMAIN, does on SERVFAIL

2010-01-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Kenneth Marshall put forth on 1/22/2010 8:39 AM: pdns-recursor 3.1.7.2 is easy to configure/use and has a tuneable resource footprint. Got her installed, configured, up and running. Let's see if this improves this spamhaus situation, and a handful a day of other dns related errors I've been

Re: SOLVED: rbl check being skipped - Postfix logs no error on NXDOMAIN, does on SERVFAIL

2010-01-22 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:40:03AM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Kenneth Marshall put forth on 1/22/2010 8:39 AM: pdns-recursor 3.1.7.2 is easy to configure/use and has a tuneable resource footprint. Got her installed, configured, up and running. Let's see if this improves this

Re: SOLVED: rbl check being skipped - Postfix logs no error on NXDOMAIN, does on SERVFAIL

2010-01-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Noel Jones put forth on 1/22/2010 10:00 AM: Nothing is logged because the DNS server gives an authoritive does not exist answer. That's not an error, it is the expected response when a client is not listed in an RBL. Hi Noel, I was not venting at Postfix, or Wietse, or any of the devs for

Re: SOLVED: rbl check being skipped - Postfix logs no error on NXDOMAIN, does on SERVFAIL

2010-01-22 Thread Mark Goodge
On 22/01/2010 16:58, Stan Hoeppner wrote: My venting should be aimed at Spamhaus. What they've done here is the opposite of transparency. In the case of Google DNS, Spamhaus has pulled something a bit underhanded in my estimation. They don't want people using Google DNS to query Spamhaus

Re: SOLVED: rbl check being skipped - Postfix logs no error on NXDOMAIN, does on SERVFAIL

2010-01-22 Thread Larry Stone
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, Stan Hoeppner wrote: My venting should be aimed at Spamhaus. What they've done here is the opposite of transparency. In the case of Google DNS, Spamhaus has pulled something a bit underhanded in my estimation. They don't want people using Google DNS to query Spamhaus

Re: SOLVED: rbl check being skipped - Postfix logs no error on NXDOMAIN, does on SERVFAIL

2010-01-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Mark Goodge put forth on 1/22/2010 11:07 AM: It's not the fault of Spamhaus, Google or Postfix if people don't RTFM. I'll give you that. I'd been using zen for years, and sbl-xbl for years before that. When I changed my resolvers to Google from my current provider's (for performance reasons,

Re: SOLVED: rbl check being skipped - Postfix logs no error on NXDOMAIN, does on SERVFAIL

2010-01-22 Thread Noel Jones
On 1/22/2010 10:58 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Noel Jones put forth on 1/22/2010 10:00 AM: Nothing is logged because the DNS server gives an authoritive does not exist answer. That's not an error, it is the expected response when a client is not listed in an RBL. Hi Noel, I was not venting at