On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Dhaval Patel wrote:

> I found the following which contains rules. http://bl.csma.biz/csma.cf
> 
> From looking at these rules, it would seem that my server would
> query bl.csma.biz to see if the IP the email came from is on their
> list. Which means that I would have to allow that on my firewall.
> Does that seem right?

It queries those servers using DNS. If your current DNS setup is
working, you should not have to do anything special to enable the
DNS-based RBL checks, as regular DNS queries go all over the place to 
resolve requests.

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