[PLUG] spam and white lists
Ed Sawicki
ed at alcpress.com
Sat Oct 4 00:16:07 UTC 2003
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 22:14, Michael C. Robinson wrote:
> That's a great list, but what's the sure fire bullet proof way to
> determine that in fact the domains these black hole servers block
> are ones that should be?
There is no sure fire bullet proof way.
> Are these blocks fine grained down to
> individual abusive hosts or are they coarser referring to whole
> subnets?
You'd have to ask the administrators of the lists. Many or most
of them refer to individual hosts. But some list blocks of IP
addresses for an ISP's dial-up addresses, for example.
> What's the cost in network bandwidth of using these
> or is there an effective way to cache them in your own local
> dns, etc?
A local DNS cache can cache these RBL lookups just like any
other DNS answer. There's nothing special about a RBL lookup
from the point of view of a cache.
Ed
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