The SURBL community, including developers, users, fans and all would like to thank the people and networks who have volunteered to carry our SURBL zones on their public name servers. In no particular order, they are:

Kelsey Cummings and sonic.net Raymond Dijkxhoorn and tudelft.nl Bill Stearns and pa.net Erik O'Connor and littleredbat.net/supranet.net Dave Funk and icaen.uiowa.edu Doc Schneider and maddoc.com Mark Reynolds and telstra.net David Coulson and davidcoulson.net Richard Zuidhof and zonnet.nl Daryl Jones and smrn.com Vincent Schonau and xs4all.nl

Left off this list are some specific network and facilities providers where some of the name servers are located, so we'll leave it to our friends to forward our thanks to them. This project would not be possible without our great public DNS servers thus far, so our hearty thanks go out to everyone helping to get the SURBL data out.

We also encourage anyone else with DS3 or faster network connections to consider helping us provide DNS for these zones. Interest in using SURBLs is ramping up from many different projects and people, but when SpamAssassin 3.0 comes out in a few months with its built-in support for SURBLs, the DNS traffic will probably jump significantly. So we could probably still use some more help with DNS. Please let us know if you can help.

Expect DNS traffic to max out around 1 or 2 Megabits per second if things really take off. Also the more servers we have the less traffic each one does, so a larger community helps to share the load!

************************************************************* We also want to strongly encourage any high-volume users of SURBLs to set up local caching name servers for the zones in order to offload the public name servers. Probably the best way to do this is with rbldnsd and rsync, though BIND versions of the zone files are also available via rsync. Please contact Raymond at rsync at surbl dot org with your name server's IP address in order to get rsync access. This will help keep the load on the public name servers reasonable, and it's also good engineering practice since it will get you the best performance for using SURBLs. To re-iterate, if you're running a high volume mail server, please do your SURBL queries from your local name server by pulling the zones using rsync and not from the public servers. Thanks! *************************************************************

Also, we'd like to remind all SURBL users that the name of the SURBL list derived from Bill Stearns' sa-blacklist has changed from sa.surbl.org to ws.surbl.org. If you are using the old name please change your configs to use the new name. After checking that DNS traffic for the old name is minimal, we are ceasing DNS service on the old name now, so use ws.surbl.org now! The different SURBL lists are described at our site:

http://www.surbl.org/

Please forward this message to any interested parties. It seems to be getting more difficult to keep in contact with everyone using SURBLs, so a little help getting the word out could be useful.

Thanks everyone!

Jeff C.