I love that error message. It reminds me of one I wrote long ago (which my users hated) that said "Unknown error. Please contact someone.". :)
No, spamdyke won't reject messages if spamhaus.org (or any DNS RBL) is down. If their DNS servers are responding (they seem to be) and returning valid results, spamdyke will continue to function normally. If their DNS servers are entirely down, spamdyke will simply ignore them (it considers no response to be the same as an "all clear"). At the moment, I'd bet spamhaus.org is probably just having a problem with their website, not their entire service. The only danger is if spamhaus.org's DNS servers start returning false positives. In that case, spamdyke will do as it's told and reject the message(s). (Some DNS RBLs have done this when they shut down, in order to force mail administrators to remove the RBL from their configurations.) -- Sam Clippinger Stefan Pausch wrote: > A email user on my server just reported an issue with his email and > spamhaus. His email was not send due an problem with spamhaus (my guess). > The Spamhaus database is currently down: > > http://www.spamhaus.org/querry/bl?ip=80.146.64.126 > - Opens a page with "Database Error (whatever it was, it didn't work) No > error 0" > - I guess due the affect that the spamhaus database is down spamdyke > automatically denies the email. Is this correct? > > spamdyke.conf: > check-dnsrbl=zen.spamhaus.org > > --Stefan > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature > database 3105 (20080516) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com > > > _______________________________________________ > spamdyke-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users > _______________________________________________ spamdyke-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users
