On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas
<[email protected]> wrote:

>> |  -d     Dump  all  zones to stdout in BIND format and exit.  This may be
>>
>> That's what we use for the BIND export of dnswl.org data (create
>> rbldnsd-formatted file, and let rbldnsd -d create the BIND file).
>
> hmmm didn't know about this one. But don't you think it's worth it? rbldnsd
> can automatically reread data files when they change, and takes up much less
> memory. I don't think TCP is that important for this kind of service...

Memory consumption for the relatively modest-sized dnswl.org data is
not really an issue, as is the automatic rereading for the data that
changes slowly (yes, it's different for a typical blacklist).

The reason to use BIND vary with the use case. Corporate environments
may be fine with running some version of BIND (and they may be doing
that already), but may not want to invest in getting rbldnsd up and
running in production quality.

For our own purpose, having more than only rbldnsd serves to mitigate
the (security-) risks of a monoculture.

As this is getting heavily off-topic for this list, please take
responses off-list.

-- Matthias

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