[rbldnsd] Feature request: DNSSEC

Florian Weimer fw at deneb.enyo.de
Sat Jul 12 00:50:29 MSD 2008


* Victor Duchovni:

>> Do you really list 420 million individual IP addresses?
>
> Yes, using RBLDNS macro expansion:
>
>     :127.0.0.10:http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=$
>     prefix1/mask1	:11
>     prefix2/mask2	:10
>
> The dynamic TXT record template substitutes the actual IP address for '$'
> on the fly.

I'm sorry, you misunderstood.  I was wondering if you've really got 420
million different records in the Spamhaus database which is referenced
by that URL.

>> Couldn't you pass the CIDR range you list to the web front end?
>
> No, because when the user later comes back with the URL in the reject
> message, it needs to be for the specific IP, so it can show the *current*
> status of *that* IP.

Yuck.  This strikes me as significant misuse of DNS.

So let's do SBL first. 8-)


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