disabling caching of RBL queries

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Thu Nov 29 01:35:40 UTC 2001


Brian Korver wrote:

> I'm using bind8 and I'd like to configure it so that it doesn't cache
> queries to the various RBL spam filtering databases.  How can I do
> that?

Upgrade to BIND 9 so that you can set max-cache-ttl to 0.

If that slows everything down too much, then maybe you could have a
separate machine with max-cache-ttl=0 and selectively forward the
RBL names to it.

Frankly, I doubt that it's worth it...


- Kevin




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