[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, SpamAssassin wrote:
>> Any ideas on how to get SpamAssassin to query one of the
>> osirusoft mirrors? (Osirusoft has been experiencing
>> DOS/DDOS on and off for a few weeks, but some of the other
>> (not *.osirusoft.com) authoritive DNS seem to be working fine.)
>>
>> The SA config is as follows
>> header RCVD_IN_OSIRUSOFT_COM rbleval:check_rbl('osirusoft,
>> 'relays.osirusoft.com.')
>>
>> Seems like no way to specify the server to query,
>> and the query suffix separately.
<SNIP>
> SA uses the standard DNS client libraries which just hand
> the query to your DNS servers as configured in your
> resolv.conf and lets the servers figure things out.
>
> Rather than try to hack your SA configuration, attack
> this problem at the DNS level. (i'll assume that you
> have a "bind" DNS server running on some machine in your
> org that your SA machine sends its queries to).
>
> On your DNS machine, add an entry to your named.conf file
> that sets up a 'type forward' zone for each zone that
> you wish to customize.
>
> Then you can list an explicit set of forwarders hosts
> that point to the "good" servers and ignore the "bad"
> ones.
> Note that if you go this route, you'll have to remember
> to keep that explict forwarders list up-to-date.
I don't think that's going to fly.
DNS is not under my direct control.
(SpamAssassin 2.55 on a per user install
through IMAPAssassin. {perl 5.008}))
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