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From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org>
To: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>
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Subject: Re: SpamAssassin Y2K10 Rule Bug - sa-update doesn't work
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On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 12:37:03AM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> There is a serious bug in SA rules with handling of "FH_DATE_PAST_20XX 
> The date is grossly in the future"
> http://spamassassin.apache.org/
> 
> "If your system is configured to use sa-update run sa-update now"
> 
> The problem is, that 'sa-update' is not working with default configuration.
> 
> Domain updates.spamassassin.org is not resolvable.
> 
> # host updates.spamassassin.org
> Host updates.spamassassin.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
> 
> According to http://just-dnslookup.com it is not my local resolver problem.
> 
> Are there any usable mirror or another trusted channel to be used by 
> sa-update?

updates.spamassassin.org isn't a DNS host record so it is expected
that your lookup will fail.

The following should, however, work:
dig 5.2.3.updates.spamassassin.org txt +short

Try running

sa-update -D

to see why its failing.

Regards,

Gary