[rbldnsd] Question on requirements for inclusion of 127.0.0.2 in dnsbl list

[Jeff Chan]

On Monday, November 8, 2004, 5:15:41 PM, William Leibzon wrote:
> I've been told by somebody that majority of dnsbl lists add 127.0.0.2 for
> purposes of testing that dnslbl is operational. Apparently its also mentioned
> at http://www.potaroo.net/ietf/all-ids/draft-irtf-asrg-dnsbl-00.txt
> (Note: this ID has now expired and no longer offical IETF ID)

> I'm wondering what people on this list are doing

What audience are you referring to?

If you mean system administrators who use RBLs, I suppose they
could add their own testpoints to their local RBLs.

> and if it is in fact
> normal practice if it would make sense to have option at rbldnsd to
> automaticly answer on that ip if list did not contain it.

In a sense rbldnsd already has support for answering with
127.0.0.2, in that :2: in an answer field will get expanded
to 127.0.0.2, but I think the testpoints should be chosen
by the RBL authors and probably should not have hard-coded
defaults in the program serving them.  That would take
away control from the rbl authors.

Jeff C.
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