[geeks] Problems with spamhaus?

[Mike Meredith]

On Wed, 14 May 2008 16:20:24 -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 04:16:05PM -0400, Ido Dubrawsky wrote:
> > May 13 22:48:21 sauron postfix/smtpd[18623]: [ID 947731
> > mail.warning] warning: 192.128.195.82.zen.spamhaus.org: RBL lookup
> > error: Host or domain name not found. Name service error for
> > name=192.128.195.82.zen.spamhaus.org type=A: Host not found, try
> > again
> 
> Same here.

Not quite ...

% host -t any 2.0.0.127.zen.spamhaus.org 
;; Truncated, retrying in TCP mode.
2.0.0.127.zen.spamhaus.org descriptive text
"http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=127.0.0.2"
2.0.0.127.zen.spamhaus.org descriptive text
"http://www.spamhaus.org/SBL/sbl.lasso?query=SBL233"
2.0.0.127.zen.spamhaus.org has address 127.0.0.10
2.0.0.127.zen.spamhaus.org has address 127.0.0.2
2.0.0.127.zen.spamhaus.org has address 127.0.0.4 

% host -t any 2.0.0.127.sbl.spamhaus.org 
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

The JANET mirror of ZEN is apparently doing fine (sorry, you can't use
it). Smells like a big ddos attack.

Testing was done from work (a quiet 1Gbps pipe).

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Mike Meredith (http://zonky.org/)
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