On Apr 19, 2010, at 9:15 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > * donovan jeffrey j <dono...@beth.k12.pa.us>: >> >> On Apr 19, 2010, at 9:03 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: >> >>> * donovan jeffrey j <dono...@beth.k12.pa.us>: >>> >>>> this system in question picks up mail ( primary MX ) for about 2000 users. >>> >>> This should well be within the limits. We're execeeding the limit at >>> about 30k users. Maybe you're using your ISPs DNS forwarder? >> >> Im not sure i understand. I know my isp pulls zone files from me, and runs a >> secondary dns server. > > Show your /etc/resolv.conf
ins2:~ root# cat /etc/resolv.conf search beth.k12.pa.us nameserver 10.135.1.2 nameserver 209.96.96.2 nameserver 207.172.3.20 ins2:~ root# nslookup zen.spamhaus.org Server: 207.172.3.20 Address: 207.172.3.20#53 ** server can't find zen.spamhaus.org: REFUSED okay,.. Ill have to check this. to make sure my queries to zen are directly from my mail system does that sound right ? -j