Blocked by spamcop, but not in DNS?

[Benoit Panizzon]

Hi all

I have a very strange problem here:

The original message was received at Sun, 18 Jul 2010 10:31:49 +0200
from panizzon@localhost [127.0.0.1]

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<i...@hntele.com>
(reason: 554 Service unavailable; Client host [gintonic.woody.ch] blocked
by bl.spamcop.net; 157.161.57.2)

$ host -t a 2.57.161.157.bl.spamcop.net; date -R
Host 2.57.161.157.bl.spamcop.net not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
Sun, 18 Jul 2010 10:39:14 +0200

That's not even 10min after I reveived the bounce. Has it already expired, or
is this a fake block?

-Benoit-

[Steve T]

Hi, Benoit,
...Sometimes messages are configured to "finger" the SpamCop bl as the cause when the reason is not SpamCop.