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Mark Smith ([staff profile] mark) wrote in [site community profile] dw_dev2011-10-07 05:02 pm
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Bugzilla temporarily down

Hi all, I'm moving Bugzilla and so it'll be down for a few hours. Just FYI.

Denise: your email will be down for ~2 hours too, until DNS propagates. Sorry!

Update: This is done. DNS is rolling through the wild TTLs, everything should be back up and running in the next hour or two. If you see any problems please let me know.
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Re: Bugzilla's IP is in the Spamhaus blacklist

[personal profile] kaisa 2011-10-10 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
The way I understood that was that AWS/EC2 has a policy that the servers on this IP range are not supposed to send e-mail directly but through specific SMTP servers, and that Spamhaus knows this policy and blocks because of it. So another option could be to use a SMTP server assigned by AWS/EC2, I guess, and that would make SpamHaus happy, too.

But as I said, it's not a problem for me since I control my e-mail server and can turn off the e-mail server's spam protection temporarily. You could just wait and see if this affects anyone else, and if not, who cares. :P
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Re: Bugzilla's IP is in the Spamhaus blacklist

[staff profile] mark 2011-10-10 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not aware of an Amazon EC2 SMTP relay? I'd love some documentation if you have it, because I'm happy doing it how they want. I don't see one though.

I suppose I could pay for service through one of the million providers...
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Re: Bugzilla's IP is in the Spamhaus blacklist

[personal profile] kaisa 2011-10-10 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
Ahh I think you're right.

I went to look at the AWS forums, and it seems a lot of people have the same problem, and they're solving it in various ways... some use the Amazon SES SMTP servers as relays, which allows 2000 free e-mails per day before you have to start paying, some are using some other external STMP relay, and some have actually managed to get Amazon to get their IP address either off the PBL list or on a whitelist instead.

I looked at their FAQ also, and it seems to imply that it should be possible to use e-mail servers in EC2, too. (http://aws.amazon.com/ses/faqs/#14)

Seems like an annoying problem. :(
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