On Sat, 2015-05-09 at 15:49 -0500, Chris wrote: > I've just finished setting up Bind as a local caching name server to > work in conjunction with my Spamassassin setup. I did this because > queries to uribl.com were getting blocked probably due to my ISPs > reputation for spam. > More likely its because you and other SA users are using the ISP DNS to sent queries to uribl.com and as a result the combined queries have exceeded the free query quota (which counts against the querying DNS's IP).
> It seems to be working great, no more of the > blocked queries to uribl.com however I am seeing a lot of this: > > named[1095]: error (connection refused) resolving > '175.190.42.208.dnsbl.sorbs.net/A/IN': 174.36.198.233#53 > Have you configured your DNS to forward queries to your ISP's DNS? If so, don't, because that is including you in the common query quota: by not forwarding queries you let your DNS send the queries direct, which means that the free quota is only counted against your DNS IP. Martin
