Re: postscreen_dnsbl_sites vs. reject_rbl_client

2011-06-08 Thread Wietse Venema
Rich Wales: > Another thing I think I see about postscreen is that it apparently will only > look up IP addresses. There doesn't seem to be any "postscreen_rhsbl_sites" > feature (which might allow me to move my current reject_rhsbl_client and > permit_rhswl_client checks into postscreen). Is suc

Re: postscreen_dnsbl_sites vs. reject_rbl_client

2011-06-08 Thread /dev/rob0
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 10:05:05AM -0700, Rich Wales wrote: > Another thing I think I see about postscreen is that it apparently > will only look up IP addresses. There doesn't seem to be any > "postscreen_rhsbl_sites" feature (which might allow me to move my > current reject_rhsbl_client and p

Re: postscreen_dnsbl_sites vs. reject_rbl_client

2011-06-08 Thread Noel Jones
On 6/8/2011 12:05 PM, Rich Wales wrote: Another thing I think I see about postscreen is that it apparently will only look up IP addresses. There doesn't seem to be any "postscreen_rhsbl_sites" feature (which might allow me to move my current reject_rhsbl_client and permit_rhswl_client checks int

Re: postscreen_dnsbl_sites vs. reject_rbl_client

2011-06-08 Thread Rich Wales
Another thing I think I see about postscreen is that it apparently will only look up IP addresses. There doesn't seem to be any "postscreen_rhsbl_sites" feature (which might allow me to move my current reject_rhsbl_client and permit_rhswl_client checks into postscreen). Is such a thing planned, n

Re: postscreen_dnsbl_sites vs. reject_rbl_client

2011-06-07 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 07:03:34AM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: > Note the following difference. > > postscreen caches that the client IS NOT listed in DNSBL. > It doesn't cache clients that are listed. > > DNS servers cache that the client IS listed in DNSBL. > They don't cache non-existent DNS

Re: postscreen_dnsbl_sites vs. reject_rbl_client

2011-06-07 Thread Wietse Venema
Rich Wales: > > Note that postscreen caches the results of successful tests, > > so that it does not repeat every test for every connection. > > This is controlled by the postscreen_mumble_ttl parameters. > > Some caching may also be done by my DNS server too, right? This would, > of course, be t

Re: postscreen_dnsbl_sites vs. reject_rbl_client

2011-06-07 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Rich Wales : > value from a given list. (I won't go into the details, they would be > off-topic here, but it's nice to have this capability.) It will probably start a flamewar, but I personally am interested in your particular weights on the different RBLs -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbere

Re: postscreen_dnsbl_sites vs. reject_rbl_client

2011-06-07 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Rich Wales : > If I enable postscreen and specify my choice of blocklists and whitelists > in postscreen_dnsbl_sites, am I correct in assuming that I might as well > remove any reject_rbl_client and permit_dnswl_client clauses from my > smtpd_*_restrictions, since they will now be redundant? Sin

Re: postscreen_dnsbl_sites vs. reject_rbl_client

2011-06-06 Thread Wietse Venema
Rich Wales: > > Note that postscreen caches the results of successful tests, > > so that it does not repeat every test for every connection. > > This is controlled by the postscreen_mumble_ttl parameters. > > Some caching may also be done by my DNS server too, right? This would, > of course, be t

Re: postscreen_dnsbl_sites vs. reject_rbl_client

2011-06-06 Thread Rich Wales
> Note that postscreen caches the results of successful tests, > so that it does not repeat every test for every connection. > This is controlled by the postscreen_mumble_ttl parameters. Some caching may also be done by my DNS server too, right? This would, of course, be transparent to Postfix an

Re: postscreen_dnsbl_sites vs. reject_rbl_client

2011-06-06 Thread Wietse Venema
Rich Wales: > If I enable postscreen and specify my choice of blocklists and whitelists > in postscreen_dnsbl_sites, am I correct in assuming that I might as well > remove any reject_rbl_client and permit_dnswl_client clauses from my > smtpd_*_restrictions, since they will now be redundant? Almost

Re: postscreen_dnsbl_sites vs. reject_rbl_client

2011-06-06 Thread Rich Wales
> On the interfaces and ports that postscreen(8) passes mail to, yes. > Do note that the behaviour is different; you will be able to directly > transplant your reject_rbl_client RBLs to postscreen, but postscreen > has many more options available, such as checking for exact return > values, and sco

Re: postscreen_dnsbl_sites vs. reject_rbl_client

2011-06-06 Thread Noel Jones
On 6/6/2011 5:34 PM, Jeroen Geilman wrote: On 06/06/2011 10:45 PM, Rich Wales wrote: If I enable postscreen and specify my choice of blocklists and whitelists in postscreen_dnsbl_sites, am I correct in assuming that I might as well remove any reject_rbl_client and permit_dnswl_client clauses fro

Re: postscreen_dnsbl_sites vs. reject_rbl_client

2011-06-06 Thread Jeroen Geilman
On 06/06/2011 10:45 PM, Rich Wales wrote: If I enable postscreen and specify my choice of blocklists and whitelists in postscreen_dnsbl_sites, am I correct in assuming that I might as well remove any reject_rbl_client and permit_dnswl_client clauses from my smtpd_*_restrictions, since they will n

postscreen_dnsbl_sites vs. reject_rbl_client

2011-06-06 Thread Rich Wales
If I enable postscreen and specify my choice of blocklists and whitelists in postscreen_dnsbl_sites, am I correct in assuming that I might as well remove any reject_rbl_client and permit_dnswl_client clauses from my smtpd_*_restrictions, since they will now be redundant? Rich Wales ri...@richw.org