Matt Kettler wrote:
> rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote:
>> On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 21:26 +1200, Jason Haar wrote:
>>   
>>> On 07/10/2009 09:01 PM, Paweł Tęcza wrote:
>>>     
>>>> Please see my initial post on Pastebin:
>>>>
>>>> http://pastebin.com/f6a83e9fb
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>> If it's true that all those domains resolve to just a handful of IP
>>> addresses, then why aren't they listed in - oh wait - SURBLs don't cover
>>> IPs just the DNS names - argh!
>>>
>>> Is there a way to do SURBL lookups of the IP instead of the FQDN?
>>>
>>>     
>> Is there not some kind of 'intent' plugin for SA?
>>
>> Barracuda (which steal everything else) have an intent scanner that
>> looks at links in mails and resolves the name to IP *AND* the AUTH NS.
>> Then looking the IP's found up.
>>   
> SA has always avoided resolving forward lookups of potentially spammer
> controlled domains to IPs. This is extremely foolish to do, as it opens
> you up to a variety of attacks against your DNS resolver. (resolver
> cache poisoning, DoS, etc)
> 
>> I can't believe they wrote it themselves - seriously I can't! What plug
>> in is it?
>>
>>   
> It's no plugin I know of, but it's a feature we intentionally left out
> of SA for security reasons. So given that it's a really bad idea I'd
> guess barracuda did implement it themselves.
> 

Are you forgetting URIBL_SBL??   That requires the A or NS records of
the URI to function.

Regards,
Steve.

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