Hi Teodor,

I wrote Sam about this topic time ago.  Here is his reply:

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Actually, a number of RBLs use CNAMEs to aggregate records. A lot of ISPs use them for their rDNS records too. Removing the CNAME check would cause some problems.

I'm much more interested, however, in figuring out _why_ the CNAME check is causing such a delay. If there are no CNAME records, performing the query shouldn't cause any delay at all. There must be something else going on.

-- Sam Clippinger
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If your rbl lists do not require CNAME resolution, you can happily live with the following patch
which removes the CNAME query.

Mirko

At 19:08 21/05/2009 +0300, you wrote:
Hi,

We are currently considering spamdyke for use in our network. One thing
that caused most trouble so far is the way spamdyke does rbl queries and
the way these queries interact with dnscache[1] and rbldns[2].

The issue we are having is caused by the way rbldns reacts to different
types of DNS queries. According to it's documentation:

 "rbldns rejects inverse queries, non-Internet-class queries, truncated
 packets, packets that contain anything other than a single query, query
 types other than A, TXT, or *, and queries for domains outside $BASE."

Attachment: spamdyke-rbl-no-cname.patch
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