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. > 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
