Thanks a lot Chris, that was the problem, it's
working great now. I do wish I could customize
the responses but that's a minor complaint.
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 2:54 PM
To: Hubbard, David
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: Problems with rbldns?
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 02:42:55PM -0400, Hubbard, David wrote:
> Hello all, does anyone use DJB's rbldns package? I'm trying to
> use it and am having some trouble with the TXT record portion.
> The documentation for the data file is at:
>
> http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/rbldns-data.html
>
> Basically no matter how I put things into the 'data' file, it will
> only serve up a TXT record of "Listed 1.2.3.4" Yes I am rebuilding
> it each time, even deleting the cdb file just to make sure.
>
> For example, I'm trying to block a mypoints.com mail server
> who's address is 216.32.218.143. I put that in the file by itself
> and rbldns works fine serving up "Listed 216.32.218.143" when
> queried. According to that web page above, if I put additional
> data into the file of the form "ip:a:txt" where a is the A record
> and TXT is the text to return, it seems to add the IP to the DNS
> server but not the other parts.
>
> 216.32.218.143:127.0.0.2:Go Away
The documentation doesn't say you can do this. You don't get to have a
different TXT record for each address; you just have one line of the form:
:127.0.0.2:Go Away
and queries for *all* addresses you've listed will get an A record of
127.0.0.2
and a TXT record of "Go away."
Chris
