At 11:31 AM -0700 11/12/01, Warren Michelsen  imposed structure on a 
stream of electrons, yielding:
>At 11:25 AM -0500 11/12/01, Stefan Jeglinski wrote:
>>>It seems like most major providers were blacklisted by Osirusoft 
>>>today, in particular, Earthlink.  We have temporarily deactivated 
>>>our blacklists as a result.  Below I have simulated the reverse 
>>>lookup done by our mailserver.  It shows that the 
>>>relays.osirusoft.com don't like any of Earthlink's mail relay (in 
>>>my example I use "falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net")
>>
>>yes, unfortunately I have found relays.osirusoft.com to be too 
>>aggressive. However, you can instead use 
>>spamhaus.relays.osirusoft.com as your RBL. I've found this to be 
>>about right for us (contains only sites from spamhaus.org).
>
>There doesn't appear to BE a "spamhaus.relays.osirusoft.com ".
>
>Query: spamhaus.relays.osirusoft.com.  Query type: Any record
>Recursive query: Yes   Authoritative answer: Yes
>Query time: 17801 ms.  Server name: n/a
>
>No records were found.

That may not be not what it appears to be...

Joe Jared (who runs Osirusoft) has a very odd view of how to 
structure his DNS zones, so you pretty much have to hit an authority 
with a query in the zone to get a rational response. On top of that, 
an "ANY" query is intrinsically NEVER recursive, and will only 
retrieve the records present in the servers cache. It's  an archaic 
remnant of when cycles and bandwidth were far more expensive, and DNS 
servers were much more eager to talk about their zones.


-- 
Bill Cole
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