Re: Spamhaus...

["Matthew Black" <black () csulb edu>]

On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:32:51 -0500
 "Laczo, Louis" <Louis.Laczo () PaeTec com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I'm looking for comments / suggestions / opinions from any providers that 
> have been contacted by spamhaus about excessive queries originating from 
> their DNS resolvers, typically, as a proxy for customers. I know that 
> certain large DNS providers (i.e. google and level3) have either been 
> banned or have voluntarily blocked spamhaus queries by their resolvers. 
> We're currently in discussion with spamhaus and I wanted to see how others 
> may have handled this.
>
> Thanks!
> --Lou


When we licensed Spamhaus a few years back, they required us to set-up a DNS 
slave server instead of querying against their public server. They had a 
special DNS client that allowed partial zone updates. Turns out we 
downloaded huge hourly updates.

We no longer use Spamhaus, relying instead upon Sender Base Reputation 
Scores (IronPort).

matthew black
e-mail postmaster
california state university, long beach