Hey guys. I was just looking over the service (sounds promising) but
before I start using an RBL (or similar service), especially one we have
to pay for access to, I always run some tests first. In this case, I'd
take a few months worth of DNS query logs and run that through a perl
script to see which hostnames would be caught by the RPZ.
Obviously, I'd only do this if I had the data mirrored locally so
I'm not beating up on anyone else's DNS servers. :-)
So... Is there a way I can get one-time access to the RPZ and
rbldnsd formatted data just so I can run some sanity checks? If I can
quantify the number of URLs the users here queried for that the RPZ
would otherwise have blocked (we run our own in-house RPZ too), I could
then do a cost/benefit analysis for the folks who pay the bills,
assuming it was catching stuff our own RPZ isn't.
Possible? I'd only run it on one, non-production DNS server here
for testing and would toss the data when I was finished, unless we
decided to use it in production and pay for access...
Brent
