[rbldnsd] rbldnsd 0.998 release, donating code to Spamhaus

[Benedict White]

Many thanks or that, and indeed all your work to date on this project which has been and still is very very useful.

In fact we still use it to run a list of websites seen in spam where it works well.

Kind regards

Benedict White

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From: rbldnsd [mailto:rbldnsd-bounces at corpit.ru] On Behalf Of Michael Tokarev
Sent: 31 December 2015 09:56
To: Daemon for DNSBLs
Subject: [rbldnsd] rbldnsd 0.998 release, donating code to Spamhaus

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Hello.

I'm - finally - releasing 0.998 version of rbldnsd, which can be found in usual location http://www.corpit.ru/mjt/rbldnsd.html

This is a minor release with 2 bugfixes in it. From the NEWS file:

0.998 (05 Dec 2015)
 - bugfix: correctly handle V4MAPPED (v4 in v6) addresses, the
   original v6 prefix was wrong.  Thanks to Alex Lasoriti for
   finding the issue
 - bugfix: sometimes IP4-based datasets gave false positives when
   an IP6 dataset were present, and it was also possible to have
   false positive in IP6 datasets.  Both has been fixed.

(yes, I know today is Dec-31rd, but actual changes were made before).


Since I haven't done anything with the code for a very long time, and because I don't have any use for the beast, also for a very long time, but Spamhaus relies on the software for their work, I'm donating the whole project to them, hopefully it will be more useful to the world this way.

Hopefully they wont screw it up too much :)

I'll make a note on the web page where the new home will be (after returning from a small new-year vacation trip).

I also hope other users, and especially contributors, wont object too much, too.

This project was born when Joe Jared operated his famous blocklist, relays.osirusoft.com, and when it become obvious that some sort of special software is needed to replace named which needed almost whole day to reload the data.  It served many famous blocklists since that time, and almost all of them are dead now.  I hoped it wont last too long, in a few years its need will be declined.  And this, in some way, actually happened, because situation with the blocklists changed significantly, and its usage is not that widespread as before.  Maybe also because email changed a lot too, we have less and less people running their mailservers, or even who actually know what email is (current generation think that email is what is offered by gmail.com or yandex.ru or hotmail.com - ie, the web-based thing).  So I think the move is well justified now, on one side I'm not involved in this anymore, and on another there are actual active users out there (and Spamhaus maybe the largest) with actual real usage and needs.

So let me make a small gift to Spamhaus, by moving all responsibility to them right away :)

Happy New Year everyone, in hope for a better world,

/mjt
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