... Give this a try:
It worked for me this morning.
Dan Zachary
(BTW my favorite rbl checker openrbl.org seems gone. :-( ) ...
Worked last night, but not now. The domain is in good standing, as is the "feeder" domain orbl.net. But the DNS records show a change as of yesterday (serial number date encoding method vs. the seconds since epoch that SURBL uses), and the 'A' record is gone. Most of the listed name servers seem down also.
They alway had a problem with timeouts, but I used them a lot too. Current DNS appended (note the use of an unlisted name server to get anything).
Paul Shupak track@plectere.com
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- % dig openrbl.org any @y.orbl.net
; <<>> DiG 9.3.0 <<>> openrbl.org any @y.orbl.net ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 60077 ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 12, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION: ;openrbl.org. IN ANY
;; ANSWER SECTION: openrbl.org. 43200 IN NS a.orbl.net. openrbl.org. 43200 IN NS b.orbl.net. openrbl.org. 43200 IN NS c.orbl.net. openrbl.org. 43200 IN NS d.orbl.net. openrbl.org. 43200 IN NS e.orbl.net. openrbl.org. 43200 IN NS f.orbl.net. openrbl.org. 43200 IN NS g.orbl.net. openrbl.org. 43200 IN NS h.orbl.net. openrbl.org. 43200 IN NS i.orbl.net. openrbl.org. 43200 IN NS j.orbl.net. openrbl.org. 2700 IN MX 999 relay.serv.ch. openrbl.org. 3600 IN SOA g.orbl.net. openrbl.org. 2005052422 2400 600 2419200 300
;; Query time: 190 msec ;; SERVER: 80.190.246.92#53(y.orbl.net) ;; WHEN: Wed May 25 13:41:00 2005 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 262