RE: Continued problems with RBL

2005-02-18 Thread Rosenbaum, Larry M.
> Actually, these files are essentially ANDed together. It doesn't just > stop once it has read your /etc/resolv.conf, it keeps going and adds in > servers from the other two files. The relevant code is here: > http://search.cpan.org/src/CREIN/Net-DNS-0.48/lib/Net/DNS/Resolver/UNIX. pm Also you

Re: Continued problems with RBL

2005-02-18 Thread Stuart Johnston
Austin Weidner wrote: Hopefully someone else can learn from this because the docs are a little deceiving, as you said it says in the docs that the order is checked like: /etc/resolv.conf $HOME/.resolv.conf ./.resolv.conf However it was checking like this: $HOME/.resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf I've su

RE: Continued problems with RBL

2005-02-18 Thread Austin Weidner
> Do you have any of the other files: > > >> /etc/resolv.conf > >> $HOME/.resolv.conf > >> ./.resolv.conf > > where . and $HOME are for the user SA runs as. > > Jeff C. Jeff, Thanks for the reply... I am happy to say: PROBLEM SOLVED! I was so happy to see this: debug: RBL: succe

Re: Continued problems with RBL

2005-02-18 Thread Jeff Chan
On Thursday, February 17, 2005, 8:56:40 PM, Austin Weidner wrote: >> According to the docs: >> >> On UNIX systems the defaults are read from the following files, in the >> order indicated: >> >> /etc/resolv.conf >> $HOME/.resolv.conf >> ./.resolv.conf >> >> What OS is this server

RE: Continued problems with RBL

2005-02-18 Thread Austin Weidner
> According to the docs: > > On UNIX systems the defaults are read from the following files, in the > order indicated: > > /etc/resolv.conf > $HOME/.resolv.conf > ./.resolv.conf > > What OS is this server running? > > Try running this: > > perl -MNet::DNS -e '$r=Net::DNS::Resolv

Re: Continued problems with RBL

2005-02-17 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 04:51:50PM -0500, Chris Santerre wrote: > This is ALWAYS a good idea, and why I don't use RPMs. Heh. I try to only use RPMs to solve this issue. ;) Installing things manually leaves somewhat random files all over the place, RPMs know what files are what. The thing is t

RE: Continued problems with RBL

2005-02-17 Thread Chris Santerre
> >So I thought maybe Net::DNS looks at it when it is first >installed. Tried >to reinstall Net::DNS from source, still nothing. Wonder if I >need to remove >the RPM version before installing from source? I have: This is ALWAYS a good idea, and why I don't use RPMs. >perl-Net-DNS-0.31-3.1 I

Re: Continued problems with RBL

2005-02-17 Thread Thomas Bolioli
That version of Net::DNS is too old. Upgrade that and see if it fixes it. Tom Austin Weidner wrote: According to the docs: On UNIX systems the defaults are read from the following files, in the order indicated: /etc/resolv.conf $HOME/.resolv.conf ./.resolv.conf What

RE: Continued problems with RBL

2005-02-17 Thread Austin Weidner
> According to the docs: > > On UNIX systems the defaults are read from the following files, in the > order indicated: > > /etc/resolv.conf > $HOME/.resolv.conf > ./.resolv.conf > > What OS is this server running? > > Try running this: > > perl -MNet::DNS -e '$r=Net::DNS::Resolv

Re: Continued problems with RBL

2005-02-17 Thread Stuart Johnston
Austin Weidner wrote: - Does Net::DNS even look in resolv.conf? There seems to be some links to a file called ".resolv.conf". I wonder if Net::DNS isn't even looking there? According to the docs: On UNIX systems the defaults are read from the following files, in the order indicated: /

RE: Continued problems with RBL

2005-02-17 Thread Austin Weidner
> 1. there have been some reports that Net::DNS will only look at the very > first nameserver listed in /etc/resolv.conf. Have you checked how long > that takes to look up a (non-cached!) record? I tried switching the order of the nameservers, no luck. Tried adding a new nameserver (public names

Re: Continued problems with RBL

2005-02-17 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Austin Weidner writes: > > 127.0.0.2 is the standard answer that Spamcop gives if the requested > > address is in its list. If the address is not in its list, if returns > > a NOT FOUND. So it looks like you are right in that the problem is not >

RE: Continued problems with RBL

2005-02-17 Thread Austin Weidner
> 127.0.0.2 is the standard answer that Spamcop gives if the requested > address is in its list. If the address is not in its list, if returns > a NOT FOUND. So it looks like you are right in that the problem is not > access-related. Do you have a "dns_available" entry in your > /etc/mail/spa

Re: Continued problems with RBL

2005-02-17 Thread Kevin Peuhkurinen
Austin Weidner wrote: Try seeing if you can use nslookup to find a currently blacklisted address. At this very moment, 64.12.184.133 is in the spamcop bl. Try doing nslookup 133.184.12.64.bl.spamcop.net and see if that returns an address. Kevin, Thanks for the reply. That was a good idea: --

RE: Continued problems with RBL

2005-02-17 Thread Austin Weidner
> Try seeing if you can use nslookup to find a currently blacklisted > address. At this very moment, 64.12.184.133 is in the spamcop bl. > Try doing > > nslookup 133.184.12.64.bl.spamcop.net > > and see if that returns an address. Kevin, Thanks for the reply. That was a good idea:

RE: Continued problems with RBL

2005-02-17 Thread Austin Weidner
> *cough* > > I'll repeat myself.. > > " Either that or you are using comcast's nameservers, and they've decided > to block access to RBLs by their users." > > Are you using comcast's nameservers? If so, it is possible that they have > blocked their namserver from answering queries for common R

Re: Continued problems with RBL

2005-02-17 Thread Kevin Peuhkurinen
Try seeing if you can use nslookup to find a currently blacklisted address. At this very moment, 64.12.184.133 is in the spamcop bl. Try doing nslookup 133.184.12.64.bl.spamcop.net and see if that returns an address. Austin Weidner wrote: Hmm, sounds like your resolv.conf is pointing to a na

RE: Continued problems with RBL

2005-02-17 Thread Martin Randall
- My /etc/resolv.conf file is pointing to my server providers nameservers. These work find, because: - [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]# nslookup msn.com Server: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx <-- my isp namesever Address:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx #53 Non-authoritative answer: Name:

RE: Continued problems with RBL

2005-02-17 Thread Matt Kettler
At 02:58 PM 2/17/2005, Austin Weidner wrote: Ignore the Comcast thing, that was a pure coincidence. My ISP is Comcast, but that didn't have anything to do with the NS lookup that spamassassin did. I think when it runs that test it does a random main domain or ISP (I've seen sourceforge.net, linux.o

RE: Continued problems with RBL

2005-02-17 Thread Austin Weidner
> Hmm, sounds like your resolv.conf is pointing to a nameserver that doesn't > allow recursion, and only answers queries about comcast.net addresses. > > Either that or you are using comcast's nameservers, and they've decided to > block access to RBLs by their users. I'm a comcast subscriber at ho

Re: Continued problems with RBL

2005-02-17 Thread Kevin Peuhkurinen
Looks to me like you can do queries to your own internal DNS server, but cannot directly query an exterior DNS server. This would happen if you are behind a firewall and only your internal DNS server is allowed to make queries to other DNS servers outside the firewall. Hope that helps, Kevin

Re: Continued problems with RBL

2005-02-17 Thread Matt Kettler
At 01:32 PM 2/17/2005, Austin Weidner wrote: debug: is Net::DNS::Resolver available? yes debug: Net::DNS version: 0.48 debug: trying (3) comcast.net... debug: looking up NS for 'comcast.net' debug: NS lookup of comcast.net succeeded => Dns available (set dns_available to hardcode) debug: is DNS ava