Jeff Chan wrote:
On Friday, April 23, 2004, 3:37:34 PM, Jeff Chan wrote:
On Friday, April 23, 2004, 7:38:46 AM, Chris Santerre wrote:
This is where BigEvil may start going. I can change mine in 2 secs to use /\d00\dhosting/ but as soon as I do that, it will be removed from be.surbl.org. For obvious reasons they can't use wildcards. All signs point to me changing bigevil over to search for this kind of stuff, and simply add any static ones I have to ws.surbl.org. But will see.
It's only the more complex ones with fancier patterns than simple alternation that are not expanded into separate domain names by expand_regex.pl.
Why use expand_regex.pl at all? Instead of taking "/\d00\dhosting/", and expand it into 100 potential domain names, why not simply accept a query like:
9001hosting.com.be.surbl.org
And, internally, do the regex "/\d00\dhosting/" on it? (and all BigEvil regexes, for that matter). And return 127.0.0.2 on a match.
Ultimately, using expand_regex.pl, imho, is utterly self-defeating -- without stretching the imagination too much, even. If only I change the above regex to:
/\d+00\d+hosting/
We're already looking at trillions of permutations!
It seems to me be.surbl.org should not do an internal database query on single domain names, but instead do a BigEvil regex (like SA does). At least, that is what I thought it would do; and how I had hoped it would have been.
Cheers,
- Mark