[rbldnsd] I HATE BIND - please help

[Michael Tokarev]

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Ok.  I tried to read this thread - it turned to be VERY difficult
as you all did an "excellent" job with quoting so it's nearly
impossible to find the actual content in every new message.  Ok.

So far, I can only understand that no matter how rbldnsd is
configured, it always "REFUSE"s every query out there.

So from now, I suggest to do the following.

Start from scratch.  Using VERY VERY SIMPLE configuration, like
this:

   rbldnsd -b 00.000.0000.00000/1053 -l +log bl.test:ip4set:test

-- literally, bl.test - this fake name will not reveal your
real domain you're hiding so carefully - only use the real
IP address.

In file "test", create only single line:

  127.0.0.2   hello here

now, after starting rbldnsd, query it
(forget about bind for now).

  dig -p1050 2.0.0.127.bl.test @00.000.0000.000000

(please use real syntax, - you're good at this stuff).

At this point, dig should return the test entry, and
rbldnsd should log the successeful query.

If it will log REFUSED, or anthing else for that matter --
well, There Is No Magic. - I'd say check your sources,
compilation options, fire up gdb etc - it's some local
problem.

Please do the very simple steps outlined above.  It should
be simple enough to follow.

/mjt