Mate Wierdl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 15 August 2000 at 16:27:44 -0500
> At the expense of sounding like an idiot:
>
> Why are all these complications of DNS queries are used to find out if
> a certain IP is in a server's rbl database? Are DNS queries processed
> faster than finger's or qmail-lspawn's when it uses qmail-users ?
>
> In what sense is it advantageous to require the delegation of a whole
> DNS domain to handle rbl database lookups? Afterall, we are just
> talking about a list of (IP)numbers to search, and not some
> complicated records.
I'm not sure I'm understanding your question; if you're asking what I
*think* you're asking, DNS is used because it is a reasonably
efficient and very widely deployed way of spreading the data from the
central site where it's updated to sites all over the world where it's
used.
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