On Tue, 2013-09-24 at 13:40 +0000, Vernon Schryver wrote: > > From: Noel Butler <noel.but...@ausics.net> > > > 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, > > > > 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. > >
-rbldnsd blocks ipv6 spammers just as good as ipv4 spammers (I'm assuming thats part of your whinge?) -combined zones use *exponentially* less resources than bind is alone makes it worth it -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 -there is more to DNSBL's than just transfers of zones 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.
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