Fletcher Mattox wrote:
John Rudd wrote:
Fletcher Mattox wrote:
Spamhaus has determined that my query rate is too high to continue
using their servers for free. So they have, apparently, blocked my
queries at their router, which incurs a 5 second timeout. How do I
tell SpamAssassin to stop using all spamhaus servers, including zen?
I tried this in local.cf:
score RCVD_IN_SBL 0
score RCVD_IN_XBL 0
score RCVD_IN_PBL 0
But it seems not to work. I still see lots of outgoing queries with
tcpdump, and I still get these debug messages:
[30474] dbg: dns: checking RBL zen.spamhaus.org., set zen
[30474] dbg: dns: launching DNS A query for 229.51.225.220.zen.spamhaus.org. in
background
[30474] dbg: dns: timeout for zen, __RCVD_IN_ZEN, DNSBL-A,
dns:A:229.51.225.220.zen.spamhaus.org. after 5 seconds
a) If you're hitting them that hard, why not pay for their service?
Thanks, John, for your friendly advice. However, please keep in mind that
I was *not* complaining about their policy--which is quite reasonable.
In fact, since you ask, we *are* going to pay for their service, but
that contract has not been finalized, and I need help now. Ok?
Just in case someone else thinks I am trying to freeload. :)
I love spamhaus's service, and I am happy to pay for it.
When we were in that same situation, we asked them for an extension and
they gave it to us.
b) Are you using anything to help lighten your load on their servers,
like a local caching name server so that you don't have to do repeated
lookups of the same addresses?
Of course we use a caching name server. We just happen to be a high
volume user.
Fletcher
