Hi All,
We're wanting to move a bunch of our rather huge sendmail access files into bind compliant zone files. Does anyone have a tool that can do this in a slightly more automated way than our current options?
We're also looking for a tool to convert a domain list into our own surbl zone (for the moment private, but we may release it later) again any pointers greatly appreciated :-)
Regards,
David Hooton
Senior Partner
Platform Networks
www.platformnetworks.net
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David Hooton wrote:
Hi All,
We're wanting to move a bunch of our rather huge sendmail access files into bind compliant zone files. Does anyone have a tool that can do this in a slightly more automated way than our current options?
sendmail 8.13 will have TCP MAP. This means, instead of using .db files, you'll be able to redirect your queries to some "query server". This query server may be, e.g. a script which converts the query to DNS query. Check sendmail 8.13 alpha version. At contrib directory, there is a sample perl script to answer this kind of queries.
We're also looking for a tool to convert a domain list into our own surbl zone (for the moment private, but we may release it later) again any pointers greatly appreciated :-)
You can do that with a simple perl script. I've a 150 lines long to generate our private RBL with bind. If you want to do that with domain names instead of IP addresses, it will be shorter indeed.
I can send it to you if you want.
Best
Jose-Marcio
Regards,
David Hooton
Senior Partner
Platform Networks
www.platformnetworks.net
-----Original Message----- From: discuss-bounces@lists.surbl.org [mailto:discuss- bounces@lists.surbl.org] On Behalf Of Jose Marcio Martins da Cruz Sent: Wednesday, 28 April 2004 7:09 PM To: SURBL Discussion list Subject: Re: [SURBL-Discuss] access.db -> Bind zone file converter
David Hooton wrote:
Hi All,
We're wanting to move a bunch of our rather huge sendmail access files
into
bind compliant zone files. Does anyone have a tool that can do this in
a
slightly more automated way than our current options?
sendmail 8.13 will have TCP MAP. This means, instead of using .db files, you'll be able to redirect your queries to some "query server". This query server may be, e.g. a script which converts the query to DNS query. Check sendmail 8.13 alpha version. At contrib directory, there is a sample perl script to answer this kind of queries.
Thanks I'll look into that.
We're also looking for a tool to convert a domain list into our own
surbl
zone (for the moment private, but we may release it later) again any pointers greatly appreciated :-)
You can do that with a simple perl script. I've a 150 lines long to generate our private RBL with bind. If you want to do that with domain names instead of IP addresses, it will be shorter indeed.
I can send it to you if you want.
Yes please!
Cheers!
Dave
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David Hooton wrote:
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I can send it to you if you want.
Yes please!
Get it at
http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr/tools
Cheers!
Cheers!
Dave
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On Wednesday, April 28, 2004, 1:32:13 AM, David Hooton wrote:
We're wanting to move a bunch of our rather huge sendmail access files into bind compliant zone files. Does anyone have a tool that can do this in a slightly more automated way than our current options?
I'm not aware of a tool to do that, but one probably exists.
The filter to create BIND zone files from lists of domains mentioned next may be of interest.
We're also looking for a tool to convert a domain list into our own surbl zone (for the moment private, but we may release it later) again any pointers greatly appreciated :-)
You can find the crude but quick perl filter I wrote to take a list of domains and write out a SURBL BIND zone file at:
http://spamcheck.freeapp.net/domains-to-bind
A recent tarball of the entire data engine is at:
http://spamcheck.freeapp.net/spam-uri-data-service-1.30.tgz
or at the sourceforge.net site which we're mainly using as a backup mirror:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/surbl/
If you would like to publish your domain list as a SURBL we have the infrastructure in place to do that. We'd want to see what kind of results you're getting, etc., with particular emphasis on a lack of false positives, check overlap with our existing lists, etc.
Regarding FPs, our whitelisting capabilities are continuing development now, so our ability to clean domain lists served up as SURBLs is always improving.
Note that SURBLs are intended to be used on message body URI domains, not mail sender domains like most other RBLs. (I mention this since sendmail access files also look only at mail headers and not message bodies.)
Cheers,
Jeff C.
-----Original Message----- From: discuss-bounces@lists.surbl.org [mailto:discuss- bounces@lists.surbl.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Chan Sent: Wednesday, 28 April 2004 7:14 PM To: David Hooton Cc: discuss@lists.surbl.org Subject: Re: [SURBL-Discuss] access.db -> Bind zone file converter
We're also looking for a tool to convert a domain list into our own
surbl
zone (for the moment private, but we may release it later) again any pointers greatly appreciated :-)
You can find the crude but quick perl filter I wrote to take a list of domains and write out a SURBL BIND zone file at:
...
If you would like to publish your domain list as a SURBL we have the infrastructure in place to do that. We'd want to see what kind of results you're getting, etc., with particular emphasis on a lack of false positives, check overlap with our existing lists, etc.
Partly why we're not keen on making this public /yet/.
Note that SURBLs are intended to be used on message body URI domains, not mail sender domains like most other RBLs. (I mention this since sendmail access files also look only at mail headers and not message bodies.)
Sorry I negated to mention that this part of the task is coming directly out of a pure list of domains that have been collected from our spamtraps and manually vetted (our own private bigevil). So it should work well in the SURBL setting.
I'll let you know how things go
Cheers!
Dave
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On Wednesday, April 28, 2004, 2:21:26 AM, David Hooton wrote:
If you would like to publish your domain list as a SURBL we have the infrastructure in place to do that. We'd want to see what kind of results you're getting, etc., with particular emphasis on a lack of false positives, check overlap with our existing lists, etc.
Partly why we're not keen on making this public /yet/.
Please let us know if we can help. We have a pretty good Spam URI community going. :-)
Note that SURBLs are intended to be used on message body URI domains, not mail sender domains like most other RBLs. (I mention this since sendmail access files also look only at mail headers and not message bodies.)
Sorry I negated to mention that this part of the task is coming directly out of a pure list of domains that have been collected from our spamtraps and manually vetted (our own private bigevil). So it should work well in the SURBL setting.
Mmmmm spamtraps and manual vetting.... Sounds good!
Jeff C.
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