depends on the RBL I guess, there might be an argument for doing that with
something like spews, or cc specific ones as they probably don't change that
much hour to hour, but with something like spamcop you'd have no chance as
it changes all the time.
regards,
Paul
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-----Original Message-----
From: Me [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 26 September 2003 07:13
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SAtalk] RBL, any need for them to be REAL TIME?


I was thinking of all the traffic and many problems with the whole RBL
thing..

Why not just maintain the databases in real time as they are now but..
Instead of everyone querying them in real time why not do a wget or
something once every 24 hours to pull the DB down to your own server. This
is just one retrieval a day, all lookups would be done locally on the mail
server own disk. MUCH faster and I for one figure that data that's 24 hours
or less old is plenty new enough especially considering how much this would
speed up the mail and decongest the traffic everywhere.

There could be MANY mirrors setup to distribute the list, all mirrors will
be updated every 24 hours with the latest file.

This would also make the list that much less vulnerable to DDOS attacks and
such.

OK, so I must be missing something here.. I can't be the first one to come
up with this right?


Thanks,
  Todd Routhier
  Lightwave Technologies, LLC.

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