[rbldnsd] managing 'thousands' of zones in RBLDNSd rather than Bind9?

[Wayne Sherman]

snowcrash+rbldnsd wrote:
 > i'd now like to add a list of zones to be 'blackholed' (not sure if
 > that's proper usage here ... )
 >
 > e.g., a list of adtracker-zones that i simply want to redirect
 > A-record queries for to a local web-server's IP.

It can be done using bind and a patched version of rbldnsd.  Some info here:

   http://www.corpit.ru/pipermail/rbldnsd/2007q1/thread.html
   See the thread "[rbldnsd] Using rbldnsd to blacklist websites"

Since then, I have discovered dnsmasq:

   http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html

   It is fast (I don't know how it compares to rbldnsd), lightweight, 
and does the job without modifications.  I have a block file with over 
60000 domain names pointed to 0.0.0.0 and it works great.

Regards,

Wayne Sherman