BigZones rbl-plus.mail-abuse.org SDB Question

[Will Yardley]

On 2005-02-14, Michael Lang <michi+bind-users at relay3.jackal-net.at> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 17:33, Jorg B. wrote:

>> I have had the same problem with the rbl-plus zone.... The solution I 
>> came up with was to run rbldnsd with a perl script that I found on the web.
>> 
>> Get rbldnsd from http://www.corpit.ru/mjt/rbldnsd.html
>> and the perl scripts to convert the rbl-plus.mail-abuse.org RBL into a 
>> format that rbldnsd can understand from http://www.spin.it/furio/software/
>> 
>> Running rbldnsd works great... Currently the mail-abuse RBL uses only 
>> about 34 MB of RAM using rbldsnd !

> yes but that is, what i didnt wanted to do, or i think that its the
> ugliest solution to fix it.

Perhaps... I felt the same way for a while (haven't used that particular
zone, but have had issues with other large zones on nameservers running
BIND). But seriously - I think you'll find that rbldnsd will work much
better for this application.