[SURBL-Discuss] Hmmm....what if?

Chris Santerre csanterre at merchantsoverseas.com
Tue Aug 3 15:34:51 CEST 2004



>-----Original Message-----
>From: Karanbir Singh [mailto:mail-lists at karan.org]
>Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 12:48 PM
>To: SURBL Discussion list
>Subject: Re: [SURBL-Discuss] Hmmm....what if?
>
>
>hey,
>
>Chris Santerre wrote:
>> What if I placed an SURBL server in the beginning of my DNS 
>query list? Then
>> users would actually check SURBL for a domain in a web page. 
>If it is in
>> SURBL they will get a 127.0.0.x and get error. Which is good! 
>
>Works! All you need to do is add the multi.surbl.org ( or 
>whatever list 
>you want to use ) to the Host Search order. So that x.com is looked up 
>as x.org.multi.surbl.org
>
>Whatever DNS servers you are using at the time, should keep working + 
>Caching.
>
>I run this at a few places. Works well across a squid proxy, specially 
>since u can then have a real page on the 127.0.0.x interface ( = the 
>gateway machine's ) telling your users what happened.
>
>Is this what you had in mind ?
>

VERY COOL! Thanks! Now if only I could get Win98 to actually listen to the
search order! :)

--Chris


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