named issue

[Jeffrey Goldberg]

On Sep 25, 2009, at 2:00 PM, Jos Chrispijn wrote:

> [named]
>
> Lately I get messages like thin in my all.log:
>
> named[605]: too many timeouts resolving '*.*.*.*.zen.spamhaus.org/ 
> A' (in 'zen.spamhaus.ORG'?): disabling EDNS
>
> (*) is random ip address

These are queries your mailservers are making to the spamhaus blocking  
list.

How many queries to the ZEN Spamhaus DNSBL are you making per day?  If  
you exceed their "non-commercial" usage, they will cut you off.

See

  http://www.spamhaus.org/organization/dnsblusage.html

-j


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