Re: Lightweight DNS server for Spamikaze

[Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 07:49:34 +0200
Martijn Lievaart <m@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> This is a first stab at a real time DNSBL for Spamikaze. Not tested
> to well yet, but seems to work OK. Feel free to include in Spamikaze
> if deemed worthy.

I like it!  This seems like a great idea for lower traffic lists.

Somehow I suspect it will not work too well on my own list, which
does around 400 queries/seconds/server, but having a faster way to
get systems "on the list" is an excellent idea for smaller lists.

I'll go over the code in the weekend, to see if there are any obvious
bugs, before I commit the thing.  Maybe I will also do the name server
configuration through the Spamikaze config file, instead of with command
line arguments.

Speaking of which, I wonder if we should move the configuration to
/etc/sysconfig/spamikaze (with /etc/spamikaze/config as fall-back) so
we better fit in with most Linux distributions...

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