[rbldnsd] [RFC] zlib support in rbldnsd

[Jon Lewis]

On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Michael Tokarev wrote:

> 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.
....
> Zlib support adds almost nothing for the "normal" case of
> uncompressed files (just one extra cmp per data line).
>
> How do you think, is such support valuable/worth it?

Seems like a no-brainer.  In the case of the NJABL auto file, gzip even 
with --rsyncable (which increases the compressed file size slightly) and 
no other options, reduces the file size by nearly 85%.  With DNSBL data 
files growing into the hundreds of MB, this seems like a really good idea.

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