[122774] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spamhaus...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Sun Feb 21 01:28:10 2010
Date: 21 Feb 2010 06:27:28 -0000
From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <6eb799ab1002201717k71004edbh9c82681c1043ffb2@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>Maybe I'm mistaken, but it appears each end user has to buy the
>service for their own mail servers, and the ISP isn't allowed to
>bypass that. For the purpose of the agreements with spamhaus, an ISP
>customer is probably considered a third party, and making a rbldns
>server available to them is disclosing spamhaus' secret DNSBL zone
>information....
In my experience, they're pretty reasonable. I would talk to them (or
one of their datafeed sales agents) before assuming that they won't
sell you the service you need.
R's,
John
