On Thursday, December 1, 2005, 12:38:22 AM, John Graham-Cumming wrote:
How about transforming a Geocities URL into a DNS query like this:
http://uk.geocities.com/xyz/
becomes
xyz.geocities.com.multi.surbl.org
And then we could SURBL check the individual pages within Geocities. In a way geocities.com is just another TLD.
John.
Yes, that's an interesting suggestion, that IIRC, has been proposed before. It would require rewriting SURBL applications and some work on the data side also. It would also require a way to signal that paths should be checked and at what level in the query (i.e., what subdomain level) the path information is encoded.
My quick answer is that it's not the type of information we originally designed the systems to capture and check, and that the best solution would be for Yahoo to properly deal with their abuse issues. Hopefully they will start doing a better job of that.
Jeff C. -- Don't harm innocent bystanders.