[KLUG Members] SpamCop Down?

Robert G. Brown members@kalamazoolinux.org
Fri, 31 Oct 2003 22:41:27 -0500


Look at the name in your log entry...
Maybe the domain name lapsed.....
[bob@gummo bob]$ dig spamcop.net
 
; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> spamcop.net
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 18427
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1
 
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;spamcop.net.                   IN      A
 
;; ANSWER SECTION:
spamcop.net.            86362   IN      A       208.184.139.106
 
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
spamcop.net.            153058  IN      NS      invalid-address.joker.com.
 
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
invalid-address.joker.com. 153058 IN    A       194.176.0.5
 
;; Query time: 79 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.24.50#53(192.168.24.50)
;; WHEN: Fri Oct 31 22:45:32 2003
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 100
 

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 22:31:51 -0500, John Bridleman <john@bridleman.org> wrote:

>* Adam Tauno Williams (adam@morrison-ind.com) wrote:
>> [awilliam@estate2 awilliam]$ host bl.spamcop.net
>> Host bl.spamcop.net not found: 2(SERVFAIL)
>> [awilliam@estate2 awilliam]$
>> 
>> Where did spamcop go?
>> 
>I can't get to the web site or report any new spam but the service does seem t
o still work:
>
>Oct 31 21:31:35 mail sendmail[29958]: hA12VTF29958: ruleset=check_relay, arg1=
adsl-67-65-189-241.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net, arg2=67.65.189.241, relay=adsl-67-65-
189-241.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net [67.65.189.241], reject=553 5.3.0 Spam blocked se
e:http://spamcop.net/bl.shtml? 67.65.189.241
>--
>John Bridleman / www.bridleman.org
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