[88087] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ORDB.ORG Outage [Suggested Procedures]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elijah Savage)
Thu Jan 19 22:29:36 2006
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 22:29:07 -0500
From: Elijah Savage <esavage@digitalrage.org>
To: Nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <43D056AA.4010103@pubnix.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Alain Hebert wrote:
>
> Suggested Procedures:
>
> We use a script that validate the blacklisted services for:
>
> . reachability
> . delay
> . if any of our subnet is blacklisted
>
> And we also run a named exclusivly for caching requests...
>
> This way the mail system gets back on its feet by itself...
>
> Queries to loaded BL service are temporary disabled automatically...
> until the service become more responsive.
>
> And we know, quite fast, if a client breach its contract and start
> spamming...
>
> Not every antispam system are that open... But if you have one...
> It might be worth the 8 man hours to do a patch.
>
> Have fun...
>
> Elijah Savage wrote:
>
>>
>> Joseph W. Breu wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I am seeing the same here. We have disabled these lookups on our
>>> mail servers.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Jon R. Kibler wrote:
>>>
>>>> Anyone else having ORDB.ORG Temp lookup failures? Seems to have been
>>>> going on since about 1900 UTC today. Using web site to do lookups
>>>> also fails or is VERY slow.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone know what is going on here?
>>>>
>>>> THANKS!
>>>> Jon Kibler
>>>>
>>>
>>
>> We have had to do the same was slowing down a bunch of mail.
>
>
I do run my own caching name server on the same exact box as a matter of
fact. But I hear one of their servers is under DOS uttack but that is
nothing official, still awaiting word.
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