[SURBL-Discuss] rbldnsd & IPv6?

Raymond Dijkxhoorn raymond at prolocation.net
Fri Feb 17 09:04:46 CET 2012


Hai!

Please do. 

I will also post a message on the zones list about it. 

Thanks,
Raymond Dijkxhoorn, Prolocation


Op 12 feb. 2012 om 18:16 heeft Paul Freeman <paul at noc4.net> het volgende geschreven:

> On 12.02.2012 07:43, Dave Funk wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 11 Feb 2012, Jeff Chan wrote:
>> 
>>> On Saturday, February 11, 2012, 3:17:25 PM, Dave Funk wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Anybody have experience running rbldnsd (serving surbl zones) on 
>>>> IPv6
>>>> addresses?
>> 
>> [snip..]
>> 
>>> Hi Dave, SURBL has nameservers running on IPv6 addresses. If you'd 
>>> like
>>> to provide DNS service over v6, I think we an add your servers to 
>>> the
>>> delegations for that. SURBL does not currently blacklist IPv6
>>> addresses, but it may in future. Cheers, Jeff C.
>> 
>> Jeff,
>> Thanks. I'm in the testing/deploying stage now. Probably
>> going live next week, will take you up on your offer then.
>> 
>> Just wanted to know if anybody else had tried this and what
>> landmines were out there.
>> 
>> Dave
> 
> -- 
> 
> Hi Jeff,
>  I feel somewhat guilty that this has been on my todo list for sometime 
> (number of years, back in 2004/5 when we did our initial testing and 
> deployment for v6 with BT Exact/6xs and friends here in the uk) as a 
> subject to bring up with You/SURBL, please drop me a line so we can add 
> a v6 assignment to our current mirror too.
> 
> Jeff,Dave,
>  Undoubtedly v6 addresses will need to enter the lists as time goes on, 
> there will most probably come a time in the future when spammers notice 
> that v6 filtering is thin-on-the-ground and attempt to take advantage of 
> that.
> 
> Dave,
>  in terms of "landmines", just generally applicable things for v6 - as 
> things currently stand there is a mix of native v6 and tunnelled v6, the 
> various tunnelling techniques bring their own set of MTU related issues 
> to the table, so if you filter careful attention needs to paid to ICMPv6 
> (particularly icmpv6-packet-to-big) for example. on the general v6 note 
> there are a number of rfc's on operational considerations and issues 
> relating to dns, smtp and a number of other protocols over v6 etc now. 
> :)
> 
> 
> 
> Kindest regards
>  Paul Freeman,
> 
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