Re: rblsmtpd emergency

2000-09-13 Thread Toni Mueller
Hello, On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 10:28:48AM -0500, Mate Wierdl wrote: 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: but would not it be relatively simple to implement a server software using tcpserver that

Re: rblsmtpd emergency

2000-08-18 Thread Michael T. Babcock
You're right -- there's no doubt that the TXT record is useful (or was ;-) ). But my point is that the lookups (according to the spec) were to be done on A records, and the TXT records fetched if you wanted that description. This is two lookups, so no qmail person would settle for that

Re: rblsmtpd emergency

2000-08-17 Thread Michael T. Babcock
- 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

Re: rblsmtpd emergency

2000-08-17 Thread Mate Wierdl
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 06:34:21PM -0400, Michael T. Babcock wrote: 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). But then the TXT record is really useful: it does

rblsmtpd emergency

2000-08-16 Thread Mate Wierdl
Thx for Chris J. for explaining why rblsmtpd stopped working with relays.mail-abuse.org. Such emergencies I think just really show the necessity to simplify "rbl" lookups. Namely, I think rblsmtpd/rbldns should work in such a way that any mail administrator should be able to set up a local

Re: rblsmtpd emergency

2000-08-16 Thread Ben Beuchler
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 07:08:28AM -0500, Mate Wierdl wrote: BTWY, I know many people are attached to using DNS for rbl lookups, but would not it be relatively simple to implement a server software using tcpserver that would just lookup an IP number in a .cdb database of IP numbers, and send

Re: rblsmtpd emergency

2000-08-16 Thread Mate Wierdl
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: BTWY, I know many people are attached to using DNS for rbl lookups, but would not it be relatively simple to implement a server software using tcpserver that would