http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3549
------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-05-27 09:38 ------- > I don't think I've ever understood why SURBL and URIBL don't use wildcard > entries in their zones. Doing so would eliminate the need for SpamAssassin to > determine what the registered domain is (it could just look up the entire > host.domain), it would be compatible with applications that choose to > determine > the registered domain, and it would allow for SURBL and URIBL to do things > like > list thishost.rm02.net and not thathost.rm02.net at their will. actually, there's another reason, too -- some DNS servers may only support wildcards for one level of the FQDN. e.g. "*.foo.com" would match "baz.foo.com" or "bar.foo.com", but not "blargh.ook.foo.com". (this is a vague recollection from discussion around the time SPF was being formulated, and may be wrong.) ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee.
