On Tuesday, August 17, 2004, 1:53:07 AM, Dave Burke wrote:
Jeff Chan wrote:
Dave, if you were trying to load surbl.org in rbldnsd, please take that out. As Raymond says the rbldnsd servers should be loading only the subdomains.
Apologies Jeff. I just added all the zones that came in when I rsynced the rbldnsd files.
It's gone now.
No need to apologize. Somewhat confusingly the file surbl.rbldnsd is not the zone file for surbl.org but for sc.surbl.org. That was an early name I tried to get Raymond to get rid of, but I think he felt people may have already been using it. In fact I think he is using it. ;-)
For symmetry, I think it's prettier to use the zone files whose names begin with their zone, i.e.:
ab.surbl.org.rbldnsd be.surbl.org.rbldnsd ob.surbl.org.rbldnsd sc.surbl.org.rbldnsd (not surbl.rbldnsd) ws.surbl.org.rbldnsd multi.surbl.org.rbldnsd
There is no rbldnsd zone file for the parent zone surbl.org since rbldnsd doesn't support delegations to subdomains, zone transfers, etc. So the parent zone needs to be done with BIND. Fortunately it's small and quite static.
Jeff C.