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?
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?
