[rbldnsd] rbldnsd setup and domain hoster

[Monk]

Amos Jeffries wrote:
> Before I get on to assisting with the stated problem.
>
> _Why_ are you doing this?
> If it's a new list please read this:
> http://www.techtheft.info/book/dnsbl/ch1_reasons.php
> (http://www.techtheft.info/book/dnsbl/ may have other details you need 
> to think about first)
Thanks for the additional information to this topic. I fully agree with 
the author of the "reasons" chapter that there are enough dnsbls already.
I do not intend to start another public list. We are running an irc 
network and I want to use the dnsbl technique for building up a proxy 
database.
We gather proxy connections by scanning client upon connect and by 
harvesting well known proxy lists in the internet. Currently we maintain 
them
in a mysql database and run a custom perl bot to compare client ips with 
ips in our database. As performance of this bot lacks a bit we are going to
switch to neostats and its dnsbl lookup module.
> <snip>
> You may want to do that, it is not strictly necessary, but helps 
> remove some potential problems later.
>
> Provided your server is on a different machine to the hosts DNS server 
> just add a DNS record to the yourdomain.com DNS file/zone:
>
>    dnsbl    NS    your.rbldnsd.ip.address.
>
> If you  have rbldnsd on the main DNS server itself things get trickier.
> (those bind configs you got so confused over)
This was the essential hint. I already tried a NS record in our domain 
registrar's interface but it didn't work. I had to setup an A and a NS 
record:
A record -> IP of server
NS record -> A record
Now it works perfectly. Many thanks


Best regards,

Thilo