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

[Chris Santerre]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Patrik Nilsson [mailto:patrik at patrik.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 3:10 PM
>To: SURBL Discussion list
>Subject: Re: [SURBL-Discuss] Hmmm....what if?
>
>
>At 17:47 2004-08-03 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>>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
>
>This would only work for x.com, not www.x.com, etc.
>The SURBL servers - correctly - return NXDOMAIN when queried 
>for subdomains 
>of listed domains, rather than treat the listed domains as wildcards.
>
>Also - this generates a lot of unnecessary dns queries for 
>non-listed domains.

I hate to say it.....but... Patrik is right :)

--Chris