On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 10:32:02PM +0100, Nick Gilbert wrote:
> I can run nslookup and do normal lookups, but I'm not sure how RBL works 
> so I don't know how to test an RBL server manually.

Ah.  Basically you verse the IP address, and tack on the RBL domain.  ie:

SORBS is dnsbl.sorbs.net, my IP is 66.92.69.221.  So do a lookup for:

221.69.92.66.dnsbl.sorbs.net.

$ host 221.69.92.66.dnsbl.sorbs.net.
Host 221.69.92.66.dnsbl.sorbs.net not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

you should get a response with an A record for some 127.0.0.0/8 host if
it is actually listed.

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