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On Tue, 2013-09-24 at 13:40 +0000, Vernon Schryver wrote:
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> From: Noel Butler <<A HREF="mailto:noel.butler@ausics.net">noel.butler@ausics.net</A>>
> We used to run our int bl on bind, it was a resource hog compared to
> rbldnsd
> But there is no way in hell, I'd run rbldnsd on anything else other
> than a BL,
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> IMO, they are both designed to do different things, and they both do
> their own thing, much better than the other because if it.
10 years ago rbldnsd was the right choice for a DNSBL. Today rbldnsd
is an egregious mistake engrained the uninformed and unexamined
preconceptions and prejudices of DNSBL users. The hand wringing about
IPv6 spam ending the usefulness of DNSBLs and the proposals to put
B-trees into the DNS wire protocol make only if you assume that rsync
is the only way to distribute DNSBL data and that wildcards cannot be
used in DNSBLs because rbldnsd didn't like them and that rsync is the
only way to distribute DNSBL data.
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-rbldnsd blocks ipv6 spammers just as good as ipv4 spammers (I'm assuming thats part of your whinge?)<BR>
-combined zones use *exponentially* less resources than bind is alone makes it worth it<BR>
-as for normal resources, a rbldnsd zone is 106K lines, in bind is 2M lines, because of its CIDR handling which is messy, and especially in tset zones<BR>
-there is more to DNSBL's than just transfers of zones<BR>
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you clearly have a bias set-in-concrete mindset about rbldnsd, maybe you and its author hate each others guts, I dunno, dont care, our decision is based on real world live usages, tests, and experiences, for over ten years of using rbldnsd and twenty with bind, so Vernon I suggest the only person here who is "hand wringing" as you put it, is yourself, whatever your problem is, get over it.<BR>
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