[rbldnsd] rbldnsd, host/zone timing check availability and domain adding

[Scott Haneda]

>> I seem to recall in the past there was a DNSBL that more or less achieved what I am after, which is the creation and maintenance of your own BL or WL, based on a core of another, but you can bring in your own domain name if you desire, and if you have set up that domain correctly with the right NS's pointing to my system.
> 
> Um.  Actually I'm not sure you really want rbldnsd.  Maybe some more
> traditional nameserver will do, such as nsd or even powerdns who uses
> an sql database for storage.  You'll need to implement the data editing
> frontend appropriately.

Yeah, I had a feeling that may be the case.  I had such a bad time in the past with BIND/named DLZ that I got the impression a RDBMS was a bad solution.  I think it is more that the DLZ project probably needs a little update here and there to keep it running smooth. 

None of that is going to change the power and speed with which I need to keep zone records up to date, and add totally new zones and have them available as soon as they are published.

I started looking back into powerDNS, which I did not want to have to, as I had issues in the past with getting it to build on Mac OS X, and support seems to have only a little interest in making Mac OS X a supported platform.

It does say it builds fine on the BSD's, so if Mac OS X will not work, I will fire up some old box that can handle FreeBSD or openBSD and see how my test cases go.

I really wanted to use rbldnsd, its why I actually made the package for Mac OS X.  Oh well, some other time. Thanks so much for your comments.
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