[rbldnsd] [RFC] zlib support in rbldnsd

[Amos Jeffries]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Tokarev" <mjt at tls.msk.ru>


> Another request-for-comments.
>
> I'm thinking about including zlib support into rbldnsd (the
> changes are pretty trivial, about 10 lines of code), to be
> able to read gzip-compressed data files directly.
>

As a mirror of CBL AND a general source of mirror zone files:
  ___please, please, please___

> After recent problems with CBL, when, due to whatever reasons
> (mostly rsync-unfriendly ordering of the records), every update
> ends up in transferring the whole file, taking significant
> bandwidth and CPU time.  In this situation (unless something's
> done to make the data file more rsync-friendly), it's better
> to grab compressed data (a bit less bandwidth needed, and alot
> less CPU usage on both sides), and rbldnsd could be learned to
> read .gz file directly.
>
<snip>
>
> How do you think, is such support valuable/worth it?
>

Oh, yes. definately. I am tired of manually checking that transfer daily, 
I'm sure others are too.


Amos Jeffries
Treehouse Networks Ltd.