David B Funk writes: >On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Daniel Bird wrote: > >> A P2P DNSBL? interesting. I've also thought about this a little since >[snip..] >> DNSBL could learn from that seed other DNSBLS, and replicate the data, >> and then (maybe?) do the RBL lookups locally. >> >> Obviously, the file (zone) transfers involved would be reasonably large >> (anyone have any ideas on who big a DNSBL from someone like SpamHaus >> would be?) > >As an EWAG, 40~80 Mbytes. > >Some protocol that has a "flooding" mechanism would be much more >robust and resistant to DDoSs and overload. Think about something >like Usenet News or NTP. (the source hands copies to 5 neighbors, >they hand it to each of their 5 neighbors, ...).
Yeah -- a GPG-signed, private NNTP network would work great. Just needs someone to code it all up ;) --j. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
