Bill Cole a écrit : > ghe wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> I'm a profoundly low-volume mailer, so there's no way I'm cut off for >> traffic. And I'm not a spammer. > > Being cut off from DNS queries is not based on how much you send, but on > how much you use the DNS query service. See > http://www.spamhaus.org/organization/dnsblusage.html for details. It is > not at all unusual for a very low-volume sender (e.g. a middling > corporate or academic system) to be targeted by enough spam to go past > the 300k/day query limit. That is especially likely if you don't take > steps to minimize your impact on their DNS servers, most importantly > putting your own caching recursive resolver between your mail servers > and the world. >
add to this that if he forwards dns queries to his ISP, it is the number of queries from the ISP that counts. >> But spamassassin has been checking with zen for 2 or 3 years now, and >> this morning I noticed bind saying it was getting too many timeouts from >> spamhaus. Now the host command (from here and from another domain) gets >> no response -- just a timeout, not even an error. > > That's what one sees when one has been cut off from DNS queries by > Spamhaus. > >> I've googled, and I've searched the spamhaus website, but I can't find a >> way to talk to them. Anybody got an addy for this situation? > > You seem to be having a searching problem... > > http://www.spamhaus.org/contacts.html has email addresses (including one > for administrative issues) that should work (i.e. have worked for me in > the past) and that page is linked from the Spamhaus homepage and many of > their other pages behind "Contacts." > > http://www.spamhaus.org/faq/answers.lasso?section=Legal%20Questions has > postal addresses and is linked from many places on their site as "Legal > Questions." > > One of the postal addresses is "The Spamhaus Project Ltd. 18 Avenue > Louis Casai, CH-1209, Geneva, Switzerland" which you will also find at > the bottom of http://www.spamhaus.org/organization/index.lasso, which is > behind the "About Spamhaus" links that exist on many of their pages. > >
