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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