Anyone from AT&T here? (AT&T bogus DNSBL answers)

Sat Apr 17 22:34:52 UTC 2004

Hi!

> No mistake, although 12.149.189.2 is a customer's NS it uses AT&T's 
> NS as the resolver. We've have complaints from other AT&T users about 
> the same thing, as does another DNSBL (SpamCop), and there's now an 
> answer from AT&T to one of their customers who forwarded AT&Ts 
> response:
> 
> "I finally talked to someone who knows what the problem is.  Your sbl sites
> have been blocked by the standard DNS forwarders supplied by ATT. This is
> due to the workload being generated on them from mailservers."

Duh! This is really dumb. 

Will they also block microsoft in their forwarders when there are new 
patches like last week, thats also generating NS traffic... 

Unbelievable.

Bye,
Raymond.