This sounds along the lines of what I'm looking for. Is there an RFC on this protocol anywhere, and a list of some free servers hosting the information?
-Aaron Boyles ITC Applications Programmer -----Original Message----- From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 3:26 PM To: Aaron Boyles Cc: SpamAssassin Subject: Re: Public Blacklists? Aaron Boyles wrote: > On a side note, is anyone very familiar with any protocols involving > public blacklists? I'm looking for the ability to simply toss an IP > at a site somewhere, and get a simple 'yes/no' response as to whether > or not it's a spam IP? All the common blacklists use DNS lookups, mostly A records in ptr-record style reverse-dotted-quad format. ie: if i wanted to check to see if 208.39.141.94 was listed in njabl.org I'd do a DNS lookup of: 94.141.39.209.combined.njabl.org if you get NXDOMAIN, then it's not listed. if you get back a 127.0.0.* IP address it is listed, and the last octet is a bitmask of which NJABL lists the IP is in.
