Karsten Bräckelmann wrote:
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 17:58 -0400, Skip wrote:
I thought you guys would like a little humor. Here's what I sent my
host and what I got in response. *sigh*
Maybe tomorrow I'll have better luck with them.
FROM: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
SITE: pelorus.org
ADDR: 68.231.250.115
Why would I be getting this on box106?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [~]# host 2.0.0.127.zen.spamhaus.org
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [~]# host 2.0.0.127.zen.spamhaus.org
Host 2.0.0.127.zen.spamhaus.org not found: 2(SERVFAIL)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [~]# host 2.0.0.127.zen.spamhaus.org
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
I would like to use the spamhaus services with my spamassassin setup,
but for some reason, I can't connect to them at all from my box. Any ideas?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This probably is, what confused them. Don't have the entire thread in
mind, but IIRC the issue is, that the shared DNS you are using returns
this. Thus, you are not directly contacting spamhaus DNS servers. Your
provider is...
I'd try explaining the issue providing "slightly" more details. And try
not to sound like a user who got problems using his web-browser. ;-)
guenther
Well, it just gets better. I sent this back to them and got the
following reply:
I'm sorry, you didn't understand my question. I can see their website
just fine from my home computer. What I am talking about is
when I ssh into box 106, I cannot resolve spamhaus for some reason. I
don't know why bluehost's nameserver is not finding spamhaus.org.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [~]# cat /etc/resolv.conf
domain bluehost.com
search bluehost.com
nameserver 74.220.195.37
nameserver 74.220.195.38
nameserver 74.220.195.39
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [~]# host 2.0.0.127.zen.spamhaus.org
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [~]# host 2.0.0.127.zen.spamhaus.org
Host 2.0.0.127.zen.spamhaus.org not found: 2(SERVFAIL)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [~]# host 2.0.0.127.zen.spamhaus.org
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
Hello,
I apologize for the problems you are experiencing, thank you for your patience.
You may need to contact your ISP and or spamhaus.org to get information regarding
your inability to connect to them, typically timing out is indicative of your
ISP.
Anyway, forget them. I am on my own again. I ran a few other
commands. What do you think of this?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [~]# host 2.0.0.127.yahoo.com
Host 2.0.0.127.yahoo.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [~]# host 2.0.0.127.google.com
Host 2.0.0.127.google.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [~]# host 2.0.0.127.pelorus.org
Host 2.0.0.127.pelorus.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [~]# host 2.0.0.127.bluehost.com
Host 2.0.0.127.bluehost.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
I'll be honest, I'm not familiar with the host command, so maybe these
commands don't mean a thing. But I do know that I get positive hits on
spamcop all the time (on real spam messages, that is), so I can do some
dns tests in SA.
Skip
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