[rbldnsd] Question regarding use of rbldnsd with MAPS RBL

[Michael Tokarev]

Mark Hennessy wrote:
> I have a file like that now that I built with a perl script I wrote.
> 
> It's formatted like this (no other lines looking different from these):
> 10.0.0.0/8     127.1.0.1

   10.0.0.0/8    :127.0.0.1
(note the colon)

> Whenever I try to do an nslookup against an IP that is listed (in this case
> 192.168.1.1), I get:
> *** dnsserver can't find 192.168.1.1: Query refused
> 
> The logs record the refusal, so it's not a firewall rule.
> 1114201474 <my ip> 1.1.168.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA PTR IN: REFUSED/0/44

Try asking for
   1.1.168.192.your.blocklist.domain.name A   IN record, instead of
   1.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa               PTR IN

> I'm using the ip4set rules.  What am I missing?

Yes, you completely missed the whole story about how a DNSBL works... ;)

/mjt