https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6102





--- Comment #2 from Karsten Bräckelmann <[email protected]>  2009-04-26 
14:10:57 PST ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> Well, yes it does, by definition actually. :)

Right...

> util_rb_2tld says that, in your example, "hostevo.com" is a TLD and not a
> domain.  So it's not that there's an implication that "hostevo.com" should not
> be queried, in as much as "hostevo.com" is specified to be a TLD and so
> therefore not something that is checked via URIBLs.
> 
> We have (essentially) "util_rb_2tld co.uk", should we start checking "co.uk" ?

Of course not. Though... See the "side-effect" I mentioned and the second part
of the original report.


> > Open issue: What about *real* second level domains? The Registrar Boundary 
> > code
> > originally was meant to add new ones. RBL listings are just a very fortunate
> > side-effect.
> 
> What about it?  Real ones should be added to the code.  The config option is
> there as a) a patch to push out a config until new code is released, and b) to
> handle not-real-but-act-like-real ones.

Hence my note about the fortunate side-effect.

Fact is, there are already more than 100 abused free sub-domain hosters, and
the common use-case is to (ab)use the option for some URIBL_BLACK love. How
often has it been used in the original, intended way of dynamically adding new,
real second-level domains?


Please note that I questioned my own bug-report, after thinking some more about
it. Oh, and tried to shift the flame-war over to the dev list. ;)  However, the
current use-case in the wild remains. As does the fact that two of our most
credible RBLs disagree in a way I don't recall ever seeing before.


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