>How do I put the IP address of a spammer into our DNS server for
>use as a spam test? I've defined the test in the declude config
>files per your earlier message.
>
>Do I just create a zone record with the full IP address?
>
>I.E. spammer is a.b.c.d, so I create a new zone d.c.b.a.spam.ourdomain.com?
There are a couple of different ways that you can do it. From Declude's
perpsective, all you need is to make sure that an A record is returned for
d.c.b.a.spam.ourdomain.com.
You could have d.b.c.a.spam.ourdomain.com be its own zone, with just an A
record to let Declude know that E-mail from the IP is spam (and possibly a
TXT record as well to explain why).
The other possibility (which may be simpler) would be just to have a zone
spam.ourdomain.com, and then define d.c.b.a.spam.ourdomain.com in there (as
well as e.b.c.a.spam.outdomain.com and any others). That way, you won't
have to have a separate zone for each IP.
>If so, what is the "host name" for the A record that goes into the zone?
No matter how the zones are set up, you will use d.c.b.a.spam.ourdomain.com
for the host name, and 127.0.0.2 as the IP (you can use a different IP if
you want, or have different IPs refer to different types of spam, so you
could have several different tests).
>Or, do I create nested zones and domain:
>Under outdomain.com
> then under it create domain spam
> then under that create domain d
> then under that create domain c
> then under that create domain b
> then under that create host record a
That would be possible, but a lot more work.
>Finally, I should be able to "test" the DNS server by using
>NSLOOKUP right?
Yes. Start nslookup, then type "d.c.b.a.spam.ourdomain.com", and you
should see "127.0.0.2" if the IP is a spam source, or "nonexistant domain"
if it isn't.
-Scott
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