[rbldnsd] Using rbldnsd to blacklist websites

[Wayne Sherman]

   I found something that indicates Bind forwarding only will happen 
when an answer is not in cache anyway:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.protocols.dns.bind/msg/c88c5faadb980b25

   Thus Bind will ask rbldnsd the first time and cache the result.  Bind 
processes subsequent requests from it own cache.  This relegates rbdnsd 
to a fancy cache filling service for Bind.

   Without a rbldnsd proxy feature, I think you are right about needing 
to use a different dns server.  Perhaps djbdns can be made to do what I 
want ( http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html ).  It is reportedly faster and more 
memory efficient than Bind.

Thanks,

Wayne


Lyle wrote:
> I understand your point, but for what you want to do you need a full
> featured dns server.  RBLDNSD won't do forwarding like you want.