Jeff Chan wrote:
On Wednesday, April 21, 2004, 7:37:47 AM, Eric Kolve wrote:
Initially, when I released spamcopuri I decided to pretty much ignore whether the TLD was a country code or not. This results in about twice as many queries as necessary, but guaranteed you would get hits if the domain was listed.
Now that people are pointing this to other RBL's beside just surbl, should we continue to do second and third level queries? Or just the query that we assume to be necessary? My concern is that not all RBLs will process the domains according to a list such as http://www.bestregistrar.com/help/ccTLD.htm. I suppose the worst case scenario is we end up getting a miss when we should be getting a hit because one side presumes that say TLD .za has a subdomain 'foo', when the server doesn't. The server side would expect a second level, while the client would do a third level query (this is why I wanted the wildcard records). I guess this really isn't that great a consequence considering the savings and the fact that this shouldn't occur very often.
I will go ahead and make this change if everyone is comfortable with the known risk.
Not sure I'm understanding the proposal. Remember that the goal should be for the clients to check the registrar-type base domain against the RBL. If foo.co.uk is the registered domain then that's what the client should extract and it's what the RBL should have if there's to be a match.
Yeah. But you did the assumption that all the rules are defined at some pages told before (bestregistrar, ...).
But there are exceptions. For example, brazilian domains. Most brazilian domains have three components, but not all. E.g. "cta.br" and "ita.br". These aren't spammers, but an engineering school and a research center from Brazilian Air Force.
Your assumptions are based on the fact that you know all the rules. But this isn't true. On the other side, I don't know how much significants are all the exceptions.
Best,
Jose-Marcio
Please clue me in. ;-)
Jeff C.
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