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Re: Spamhaus...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Wed Feb 17 19:35:46 2010

Date: 18 Feb 2010 00:35:14 -0000
From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <web-29459201@remus.csulb.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

>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.

They now give you the choice of rsync or queries to non-public
servers.  Unless you have a humungous mail system, queries are cheaper
and certainly less hassle.

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

How does the price compare?

R's,
John





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