[SURBL-Discuss] Re: ANNOUNCE: Top SURBL DNS queries and whitelist
hits
Eric Kolve
ekolve at comcast.net
Tue Sep 7 23:47:34 CEST 2004
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
>
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