CBL website and email back on line

The CBL website is back on line.
It’s possible that your local DNS resolver has old values for it cached. If so, and if you can’t flush your local DNS cache, and you really can’t wait until DNS has been updated then you may be able to put a temporary entry in your hosts file to point to cbl.abuseat.org.
You can get the IP address you need to add by querying the nameserver at ns-2038.awsdns-62.co.uk for cbl.abuseat.org. No, I’m not going to tell you the IP address – if you can’t do a basic DNS query, you shouldn’t be modifying your hosts file and you can just wait a day.

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