John R. Levine <jo...@iecc.com> wrote:
>
> DNSBLs already set the min pretty low, e.g. 150 sec for Spamhaus. Doesn't
> really matter how low it is if you have so many entries that they force out
> the useful ones.

The really important records are the delegation chain NS records. It is
not so necessary to keep leaf records in the cache.

http://nms.csail.mit.edu/projects/dns/

> Modern spam filters don't usually look up the author domain, since it's
> usually a genuine address taken from the spam list so it's unrelated to the
> real sender.

I think it's still useful to reject mail with an unresolvable return path
domain.

Tony.
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