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

Chris. cth at fastmail.ca
Sat May 16 14:20:20 MSD 2009


On Fri, 15 May 2009 20:33:30 -0400, Steven Champeon wrote...

> on Fri, May 15, 2009 at 06:17:46PM -0500, Dave Pooser wrote:
>>> P.S. I guess the best way for me to explain how I do it (trap
>>> naughty IP's), is to start letting ppl use it. No? :)
>> 
>> No.
>> 
>> If you can't explain it, sane admins won't use it. (Granted, that
>> leaves several million admins who might, but if you spend too much
>> time dealing with nothing but crazy it tends to rub off.) You don't
>> have to give away all your secret sauce, but when you're claiming to
>> have roughly 1/4 of the Internet blacklisted you need to give some
>> idea how you're building this list so people can determine how much
>> weight to give a listing.
> 
> *ting*
> 
> Isn't there a BCP or something about how to responsibly run a DNSBL?
> 
> Ah, yes. I knew it.
> 
> http://www.nabble.com/DNSBL-BCP-v.2.0-p8874665.html
> 
> Start reading at 2.1. (Well, read the whole thing, but 2.1 is of
> special interest here).

Damnit! I had spent the last weeks looking for that article. I had found it
(and read most of it) when I was first investigating rbldnsd.
THANK YOU Steven!
Thank you also, for pointing the thread back into it's proper direction. :)

Thank you very much for taking the time to respond.

--Chris

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