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List:       spamassassin-users
Subject:    Re: dsbl.org down for good
From:       jm () jmason ! org (Justin Mason)
Date:       2008-09-29 9:33:20
Message-ID: 20080929093320.D242030C0EF () jmason ! org
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Jason Haar writes:
> McDonald, Dan wrote:
> > No, it boils down to the attitude in your e-mail - "Why didn't the
> > SpamAssassin benefactors do their job better".  I for one am impressed
> > with their willingness to provide such a useful piece of software, and
> > maintain it.  But most of them have real jobs, and don't spend every
> > waking moment trolling the webpages of obscure rbl'slooking for notices
> > that things are borked.
> >
> >   
> 
> ...and I bet there are still commercial anti-spam products using
> dsbl.org because they haven't figured it out either :-)
> 
> Also, dsbl.org was returning "OK" DNS records for every request, so
> having some process that "checks" that each RBL SA uses was still
> working wouldn't have detected a fault - unless it starts flagging
> errors because dsbl.org wasn't catching anything. The decision how to
> make an RBL server act *on failure* is pretty much up to the owner.

yep -- there is a proposed standard, but it's still in draft status:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-irtf-asrg-bcp-blacklists-04.txt

list.dsbl.org even still has a working entry for 127.0.0.2 (the test
entry):

: jm 298...; dig 2.0.0.127.list.dsbl.org.

; <<>> DiG 9.4.1-P1.1 <<>> 2.0.0.127.list.dsbl.org.
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 34851
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 6, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;2.0.0.127.list.dsbl.org.       IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
2.0.0.127.list.dsbl.org. 21600  IN      A       127.0.0.2

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
list.dsbl.org.          259199  IN      NS      i.ns.dsbl.org.
list.dsbl.org.          259199  IN      NS      g.ns.dsbl.org.
list.dsbl.org.          259199  IN      NS      d.ns.dsbl.org.
list.dsbl.org.          259199  IN      NS      c.ns.dsbl.org.
list.dsbl.org.          259199  IN      NS      h.ns.dsbl.org.
list.dsbl.org.          259199  IN      NS      f.ns.dsbl.org.

;; Query time: 638 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Mon Sep 29 09:31:03 2008
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 156


--j.
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