[rbldnsd] List servers

Per Jessen per at computer.org
Sat Mar 13 19:43:18 MSK 2010


Scott Haneda wrote:

> On Mar 12, 2010, at 8:55 AM, Bill Landry wrote:
> 
>> Probably best to provide Marc with an rsync feed, unless you can
>> withstand a million queries per day.  ;-)
> 
> I have often wondered about some of the larger DNSBL installations out
> there.
> 
> What type of system resources and bandwidth on average are needed per
> roughly each million request to rbldnsd? 

1 million per day is only about 10 per second - even a 486DX2 would
easily deal with that.

> If I were to start to offer up my DNSBL and DNSWL to the public, does
> anyone know of services in which will ( for a fee I would imagine )
> take my zone and mirror it, so they incur the resource hit, or attacks
> against the DNS? 

If your data is good, people will often volunteer to mirror it. 


/Per Jessen, Zürich



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