On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:25:41 -0500 (EST) Andy Dills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > It appears (from email recently sent to the admins of a few small > mailservers I help admin) that the people in charge of uribl.com have > decided to set a pretty low threshold for blacklisting DNS servers > from querying, demanding that people who hit that threshold pay them > a rather exorbitant rate for a data feed. > > I have judged this threshold to be low based on the size of some of > the mail/dns servers whose admins have gotten this email, along with > the fact that this is the only blacklist to have taken this obnoxious > stance. > > I have no problem disabling their tests in my local.cf. I'm wondering > if it's time to recognize that they are very similar to MAPS and to > treat them similarly, because right now the default inclusion of > tests against multi.surbl.com is in reality just a "trial service" > and an opportunity for this for-profit organization to create revenue > streams. > > I really don't care much either way, for me it's a done deal, I'm > disabling the tests on my mail servers and advising others to do the > same. I'm just wondering if the community at large is aware of this > and has an opinion. Back on October 16th, 2007 they did make an announcement on their site: ... URIBL has begun to block IPs hitting our public DNS mirrors with high volume. If you are sending anything close to 500k queries/day to our public dns, you queries may be refused already, or in the near future. If you would like to become a part of the public dns infastructure and give some queries back to the world, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is the same thing SpamHaus started doing a year or so ago (I can't recall for sure when, it could have been less than a year). As we are using SpamHaus at the MTA level (not at the SA level), we have purchased the data feed. At the MTA level, our two filter servers are doing an average well over three(3) million queries per day. ------- _|_ (_| |
