[rbldnsd] List servers

[Per Jessen]

Michelle Sullivan wrote:

> This is way offtopic for this list so I appologise to all, and request
> any followups are to me personally or to another list such as the one
> I mentioned earlier.

None of my business, but no-one is complaining and a discussion on how
to run DNSBLs isn't really that OT on the list for the software that is
most often used to do so :-)

> Scott Haneda wrote:
>> On Mar 14, 2010, at 5:55 AM, Michelle Sullivan <matthew at sorbs.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> If you wish to make a public service and if it becomes popular you
>>> should prepare for this sort of bandwidth as dealing with the
>>> traffic as an after thought, whilst not impossible is significantly
>>> more
>>> difficult.  You should also be aware that some DNSBls (aka "the
>>> competition") will request strongly (demand) they are placed first
>>> in the "we've blocked you" priority, and whilst with some MTAs this
>>> can mean less lookups to you, it can also mean that you see the
>>> traffic and the blocked party never sees your blocked message so you
>>> will not get advertising revenue.
>>
>> I don't entirely understand this statement. You mean that the default
>> install of other RBL definition lists get demands to put certain
>> RBL's higher up in their config lookup order?
> 
> I know some DNSBls will ask to be checked first - if they get a hit
> then the other DNSbl's are usually not queried.

Hmm, that's not the usual Spamassassin way - with short-circuiting
perhaps. 


/Per Jessen, Zürich