Is zen.spamhaus.org dead?

[morkhans]

We use bl.spamcop.net and zen.spamhaus.org for RBL/XBL lookups. Sometime last week I started picking up errors resolving zen.spamhaus.org which resulted in mail being temp failed. I have the same problem at a client who also uses spamhaus. Has anyone else noticed similar issues?

 

[morkhans]

Oh well I switched it back on and while there are still occasional time-outs it's nothing like last week. Interesting I still get nothing back when running nslookup zen.spamhaus.org but it's killing spam again so I am happy.

 

[popowich]

How many DNS queries are you generating?

Is it possible you went over their abuse/free limit and need to pay for a local rsync copy of their RBL's?

-Raymond