[rbldnsd] how to make public (DNS)RBL?

[Chris.]

Hello Gabrielle, and thank you for your reply...

On Wed, 13 May 2009 19:54:56 -0400, Gabrielle Singleton wrote...

> 
> On May 13, 2009, at 3:41 PM, Chris. wrote:
> 
>> So, here's the deal; I've been working on a "trap" system for about
>> a year. I can now say
>> it works better than anything else available on the net - so why not
>> share the benefits
>> with all?
> 
> Hi Chris:
> 
> My first thought is to wonder whether you have considered that your
> trap system might work better for you than anything else available
> because it is trapping your spam.  Others may benefit more if you
> share your trap method (scripts on sourceforge, etc) rather than
> publish the IPs, and this would involve a lot less set-up and
> support.  I am not sure how many users you are dealing with but here a
> subset of users get targeted from specific source IPs (snowshoe spam)
> that take a long time to be picked up by the big RBLs.  This leads to
> me to wonder to what degree there is spam-source-IP to target-domain
> specificity.  The IPs you trap at your domain may not apply to others
> or the timing could be off.
> 
> I could be completely off-base, maybe you have dozen or hundreds of
> traps across the internet, and all great ideas start somewhere, I was
> just wondering if you had considered this.
> 
> Gabrielle

All good points. I've been RP for a good number of /24's, and /16's for
quite a few years. I also own (to the extent one /can/ own) a couple
hundred domains, and all the hosts that typically go along with them.
This has helped to get a fairly good "taste" of what one might expect.
But indeed, getting others involved would be even better. part of my
reason for wanting to make it a public list. This would permit me to
experience environments that I might not yet have had a chance to.
The (combined) list currently holds more than a billion IP's. It took
less than 7 months to reach the 1B mark. I'm pretty sure I receive
more than the average amount of opportunity to get spam, or maybe the
system is better that I think. I won't be able to fully appreciate that
until I share the list. :)

Thanks again for taking the time to respond.

--Chris

P.S. I see you hail out of umich. They still maintain the Macintosh archive?

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