----- Original Message -----
From: "Mate Wierdl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 09:55:53AM -0500, Ben Beuchler wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 07:08:28AM -0500, Mate Wierdl wrote:
> >
> > That would not allow for the rapid changes necessary in a blackhole
> > list. Imagine you are an ISP with several thousand customers. Through
> > an oversight, your mail server is blacklisted. Would you rather wait
> > for the tens or hundreds of thousands of sysadmins out there
> > administering mail servers to remove you from their blackhole list or
> > just submit it to the maintainer of the list and have it fixed in minute
> > or hours?
>
> The fact is a few thousand mail servers running rblsmtpd cannot use
> relays.mail-abuse.org. So now they all have to apply for a domain so
> that they can use rbldns. Or they can start patching rblsmtpd to use
> A records---until relays.mail-abuse.org will change the record
> structure again.
The best approach to this is to have rblsmtpd use A records, as it should
have from the beginning (that's what you get for optimising solely for
speed, not for correctness).
