>ram, > >> On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 08:36 -0400, Matt Kettler wrote:
[ snip -- discussion of slow response from combined-HIB.dnsiplists.completewhois.com ] > > Mark It appears from my logs back as far as August 7, 2007, all I get is SERVFAIL, certainly today there is no routing path to either 64.68.10.10 or 64.68.11.11 from my network. So is completewhois.com being DDoSed? Do they just have pathologically bad connections with parts of the internet? Should this rule just be dropped from whatever distributes it to me automatically (spamassassin.org, and SARE from openprotect)? Are there routing problems that can be fixed? I average one request per two seconds to there, it appears, and they all fail, so I'm inclined to think I could do without them. They just generate ICMP time-to-live exceeded responses. Mr. Dale