Would it be an option to configure a policy for your DNS server to
**not** send queries from postfix host(s) through the add&tracker filter?

Cheers

tobi

On 4/22/21 12:20 PM, Simon Wilson wrote:
> Is there a way to make Postfix/postscreen use a specific DNS server?
>
> Reason for the question:
> My network has an internal (non-ISP forwarding) DNS server for both
> internal and external resolution, and that is default nameserver
> across the network including for the mail server. That DNS server
> includes a broad set of applied RPZ restrictions (which remove the
> vast majority of ads and trackers - a very popular addition). The RPZ
> zone has though on very rare occasions resulted in Postfix getting
> SERVFAIL and rejecting domains (reject_unknown_sender_domain), which
> could be classed as false positives - not for critical emails, but
> occasionally for retail mail-outs etc.
>
> I provide a fully "clean and complete" DNS for spamassassin DNSBL
> lookups by running a recursive caching nameserver on-localhost (SA has
> an defined option to specify a DNS server). As noted above the mail
> server as a whole does not use this - it uses the network-wide local
> nameserver, ensuring that it can resolve local As CNAMEs etc as needed.
>
> Note: I realise one option is that I could probably add local domain
> resolution to the localhost nameserver and use it as the default for
> the mail server... but my first question is whether postfix has or
> could have ability to have a specific nameserver (as Spamassassin
> does), or if this would be a Bad Idea (TM) for reasons unknown to me.
>
> Simon.
>

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