http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4242





------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED]  2005-04-04 01:37 -------
(In reply to comment #6)
> The patch directly tests the numeric NS entries against the URIBL.  Without 
> the
> patch the numeric NS entries are first attempted to be resolved into A records
> and these then looked up in URIBL, but as this A lookup fails, there is no A 
> to
> lookup in URIBL. The patch tests if NS record is numeric and if so bypasses 
> the
> further lookup of A record for the NS entry and tests the NS record directly
> against URIBL (after removing trailing dot)

Thanks for the sanity check.  What you describe sounds correct.
 
> The NS lookup has to occur first as this is the way the URIBL_SBL rule works. 
> It
>  checks against the URIBL the IPs of the NS records for URIs in the email, so 
> a
> lookup of NS records for a domain must occur first.

Probably it should be a new ticket, but it would be better if uridnsbl (the
command used in the URLBL_SBL rule) did not even try to check NS records when 
the URI hostname input is an IP address.  

Jeff C.





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