On Tuesday, August 3, 2004, 1:43:56 PM, Chris Santerre wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Patrik Nilsson [mailto:patrik@patrik.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 3:10 PM To: SURBL Discussion list Subject: Re: [SURBL-Discuss] Hmmm....what if?
At 17:47 2004-08-03 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
Chris Santerre wrote:
What if I placed an SURBL server in the beginning of my DNS
query list? Then
users would actually check SURBL for a domain in a web page.
If it is in
SURBL they will get a 127.0.0.x and get error. Which is good!
Works! All you need to do is add the multi.surbl.org ( or
whatever list
you want to use ) to the Host Search order. So that x.com is
looked up as
x.org.multi.surbl.org
This would only work for x.com, not www.x.com, etc. The SURBL servers - correctly - return NXDOMAIN when queried for subdomains of listed domains, rather than treat the listed domains as wildcards.
Also - this generates a lot of unnecessary dns queries for non-listed domains.
I hate to say it.....but... Patrik is right :)
Yes. PLEASE don't do this.
We don't need and probably can't handle the extra DNS traffic. Let's let the SURBL data be used for their intended purpose of checking emails.
Jeff C.