[rbldnsd] Re: rbldns mailing list

[Michael Tokarev]

Bill Boebel wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> Is there a users' mailing list for rbldns?

There is - it's rbldnsd at corpit.ru (CC'ed - hope you don't
mind), managed by mailman, referenced from the rbldnsd homepage.
There's only one mailinglist, for all questions/discussions.

> Here is my question in case there is no mailing list:  Is there a config 
> setting available that will allow me to change the default return value 
> for each ip4tset dataset, if I want to use something other than 127.0.0.2?

Yes there is.  Specify usual
  :ip.add.re.ss
or
  :ip.add.re.ss:text-template
in the dataset.  First such entry wins.

> Basically I have several ip4tset datasets that I am rsynching regularly 
> from public blacklists, and I'd like to merge them all under one 
> hostname with different return values for each dataset.  I can do this 
> if I write a script to modify the files and change them all to ip4set 
> datasets, but I'd like to avoid that if possible.

if you have files data1 and data2, want them both to be in zone ex.tld, and
want to specify A/TXT values for each, create two files with just those values,
say, ctrl1 and ctrl2 (one line in each, plus any your additions if you like),
and specify the following in the command line:

  rbldnsd ... \
    ex.tld:ip4tset:ctrl1,data1 \
    ex.tld:ip4tset:ctrl2,data2 \
    ...

The `zone:type:filelist' syntax - note it's a fileLIST, you can specify
several comma-separated files here.  If more than one file is specified,
they all works like it were one large file...

It all is described in the manpage, but it's a bit long and a bit messy.. ;)

> Thanks,

You're welcome.

/mjt