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Re: disable spamhaus rbl?

From: Andrzej Adam Filip <anfi(at)xl.wp.pl>
Date: Mon Aug 13 2007 - 17:57:56 EDT

Theo Van Dinter wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 03:55:52PM -0500, Fletcher Mattox wrote:

>> But it seems not to work.  I still see lots of outgoing queries with
>> tcpdump, and I still get these debug messages:
>>
>> [30474] dbg: dns: checking RBL zen.spamhaus.org., set zen
>> [30474] dbg: dns: launching DNS A query for 229.51.225.220.zen.spamhaus.org. in background
>> [30474] dbg: dns: timeout for zen, __RCVD_IN_ZEN, DNSBL-A, dns:A:229.51.225.220.zen.spamhaus.org. after 5 seconds

>
> You need to find the source rules and set them to zero, ala:
>
> $ grep spamhaus.org /var/lib/spamassassin/3.001008/updates_spamassassin_org/*.cf | awk '/check_rbl/ { print $2 }'
> __RCVD_IN_ZEN
> RCVD_IN_XBL
> RCVD_IN_PBL
>
> Set those scores to 0.

Consider also using CBL.abuseat.org - it is included in XBL.spamhaus.org and gives most hits of XBL. CBL.abuseat.org zone files can be downloaded via rsync.

> Alternately, add a "spamhaus.org" zone to your name server w/ no entries so
> that queries return "instantly".

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