disabling caching of RBL queries

[Brian Korver]

Chris Adams wrote:
> 
> Once upon a time, Brian Korver  <briank at cs.stanford.edu> said:
> >How does everyone currently prevent just the RBL queries from being cached?
> >Do people really have to set up 2 servers?  This is for my home net, so
> >that isn't a reasonable option.  :(
> 
> Why do you need to prevent them from being cached?  If they are run with
> anyone with the slightest bit of clue, they'll have low TTL (MAPS uses 5
> minutes).  You _want_ them to be cached, because doing lots of lookups
> across the net for the same IP (because often the same IP _will_ hit you
> a lot in a short time).

Dunno who's responsible, but I've seen these entries cached for a lot
longer than 5 minutes.  :(

brian
briank at cs.stanford.edu