[122601] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spamhaus...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Wed Feb 17 18:35:44 2010
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <785686BA670E9840A0992A810829B189D2B4883C@NYMAILCLUSTER1.corp.paetec.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:35:09 -0500
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Feb 17, 2010, at 5:32 PM, Laczo, Louis wrote:
> 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.
I believe you can pay them a small fee and do a zone transfer so you are =
not hitting their name servers.
If you see value in the service, it should be worth the small fee. And =
since you are hitting them a lot, I have a feeling that you see value in =
the service.
--=20
TTFN,
patrick
