On Mon, 19 May 2014 10:46:25 -0800 Kevin Miller <kevin_mil...@ci.juneau.ak.us> wrote:
Ian> Excellent point. I _used to_ run a local DNS cache, but got rid of Ian> it a few months ago, in the name of simplicity. Was that a good or Ian> bad thing to do in the current context? Kevin> That's a bad thing to do. A caching name server is pretty easy Kevin> to implement (all the distros that I've played with do it Kevin> automatically just installing bind). Many (most?/all?) RBLs Kevin> require a subscription (read money) if you exceed a certain Kevin> number of queries. A public dns server can hammer them quite Kevin> quickly, and thus get filtered out. A local caching server is Kevin> definitely recommended. I've never read any posts suggesting Kevin> reasons not to use one... Ok, I installed a local bind instance on Saturday. But it is not helping: out of about 100 spams I got today (counting both those that got flagged and those that didn't, but not counting the "horrible" spams with score > 15 that go directly to /dev/null), _none_ scored on URIBL_RHS_DOB. And I know for a fact that most of them contain fresh domains :-( Btw, all those domains are registered with enom. Wth? -- Please *no* private copies of mailing list or newsgroup messages.
