Ed Abbott wrote: > You are helping clear up a lot of confusion. It seems > that Time-Warner regularly hijacks DNS. Here's a blog > post that details the experience of one user: > > http://blog.jonudell.net/2010/09/13/hijack-my-dns-and-i-will-be-annoyed-blame-me-and-i-will-go-ballistic/
> I assume, but do not know for sure, that this is a common > experience. This would also affect my use of spamassassin > for non-local rules, right? Any rule that relies on DNS lookups, yes. :( A few remote rules rely on other remote lookups (eg, Vipul's Razor, DCC, pyzor) but the stock DNS-based rules alone can catch somewhere up to about 85-90% of the spam all by themselves, in my experience. And the non-DNS rules still rely on DNS lookups to be able to connect to the right remote system. Based on that blog link you *should* be able to opt-out of this nuisance, and if it keeps coming back, take the path one respondent noted about a cron job to request the opt-out on a regular basis (I think every 5 minutes is probably overkill, but...) If that fails, and if it's at all an option... take your Internet access business elsewhere. -kgd
