On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote: > on 4-15-2010 1:36 PM Larry Vaden spake the following: >> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Ned Slider <ned at unixmail.co.uk> wrote: >>> Larry Vaden wrote: >>>> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Ned Slider <ned at unixmail.co.uk> wrote: >>>>> Changing dns to public services such as google or OpenDNS is not going >>>>> to help as DNSBLs like Spamhaus will have blocked access by these >>>>> services. Otherwise it would be simple to avoid paying for (business) >>>>> access to Spamhaus. >>>> >>>> Au contraire, there are benefits/economies of scale to spamhaus.org >>>> from having an aggregator like opendns. >>>> >>> >>> Indeed, but not if you are charging for high volume and/or commercial use. >> >> opendns resolves queries to zen.spamhaus.org and AFAIK all the major >> DNSBLs. Period. End. >> >> kind regards/ldv > Resolves them, or forwards them? Just curious... Avoiding answering your question because of lack of expertise in the difference of resolving vs. forwarding, but (IP taken from a recent (Apr 15 16:01:25 CT) postfix NOQUEUE): [redacted at catch22 etc]# host 251.54.51.173.zen.spamhaus.org 208.67.222.222 Using domain server: Name: 208.67.222.222 Address: 208.67.222.222#53 Aliases: 251.54.51.173.zen.spamhaus.org has address 127.0.0.10 251.54.51.173.zen.spamhaus.org has address 127.0.0.4 [redacted at catch22 etc]#