[SURBL-Discuss] Re: ANNOUNCE: Top SURBL DNS queries and whitelist hits

[Eric Kolve]

On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 10:52:31AM -0300, Mariano Absatz wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 06:16:53 -0700, Jeff Chan <jeffc at surbl.org> wrote:
> > On Tuesday, September 7, 2004, 6:13:19 AM, Chris Santerre wrote:
> > >>From: Jeff Chan [mailto:jeffc at surbl.org]
> > 
> > >>We've made a list of the top SURBL DNS queries into my name server:
> > >>
> > >>  http://www.surbl.org/dns-queries.counts.txt
> > >>
> > >>and a version with only whitelist hits:
> > >>
> > >>  http://www.surbl.org/dns-queries.whitelist.counts.txt
> > 
> > > Would it be possible to hard code a "SKIP" for certain URLs?
> > 
> > > 175     yahoo.com
> > > 157     w3.org
> > > 87      msn.com
> > > 77      flowgo.com
> > 
> > > Why have the code even bother to check those? Sort of like a permanent hard
> > > coded Whitelist. (Bah, Skiplist! I have to stop calling it a whitelist!)
> > > This would save traffic.
> > 
> > > Just a thought.
> > 
> > > --Chris
> > 
> > Yes, Theo proposed exactly such a thing for SA.  The top ones
> > should be fairly stable, and also offer the greatest reduction
> > in queries.
> > 
> > SpamCopURI comes with a local whitelist.  Eric could we ask you
> > to grab some of these, populate that list in future versions
> > and make it live?  The hooks are already there; we just need
> > to use them, and the top whitelist hits would be really useful.
> > 
> Jeff, Eric,
> 
> if I want to manually whitelist these, how should I do?
> 
> Do I have to add both the wildcard and non-wildcard version of a
> domain to have the domain and all its subdomains whitelisted?
> 
> That is, will
> whitelist_spamcop_uri   *.yahoo.com
> also whitelist yahoo.com or do I have to explicitly add
> whitelist_spamcop_uri   yahoo.com
> (since yahoo.com wouln't "match" *.yahoo.com 'cause it's missing the dot)?

Yes, you will need two entries:

  whitelist_spamcop_uri   *.yahoo.com yahoo.com

Should do it.

--eric


> 
> TIA
> 
> -- 
> Mariano Absatz - El Baby
> el (dot) baby (AT) gmail (dot) com
> el (punto) baby (ARROBA:@) gmail (punto) com
> _______________________________________________
> Discuss mailing list
> Discuss at lists.surbl.org
> http://lists.surbl.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss