Re: spamassassin and caching nameservers

2016-08-23 Thread Kim Roar Foldøy Hauge
On Tue, 23 Aug 2016, Alex wrote: Hi, On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 11:52 PM, Bill Cole wrote: On 22 Aug 2016, at 21:15, Alex wrote: Is it a full-fledged nameserver, suitable enough for MX, A, TXT, queries, etc for this purpose? Nope. rbldnsd is only an authoritative server and does not do any r

Re: spamassassin and caching nameservers

2016-08-23 Thread Alex
Hi, On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 11:52 PM, Bill Cole wrote: > On 22 Aug 2016, at 21:15, Alex wrote: > >> Is it a full-fledged nameserver, suitable enough for MX, A, TXT, >> queries, etc for this purpose? > > Nope. rbldnsd is only an authoritative server and does not do any resolution > via other serve

Re: spamassassin and caching nameservers

2016-08-22 Thread Bill Cole
On 22 Aug 2016, at 21:15, Alex wrote: Is it a full-fledged nameserver, suitable enough for MX, A, TXT, queries, etc for this purpose? Nope. rbldnsd is only an authoritative server and does not do any resolution via other servers or caching of records for which it is not authoritative. If y

Re: spamassassin and caching nameservers

2016-08-22 Thread Shawn Bakhtiar
Not sure if this helps but I use bind dlz with a mysql back-end as DNSBL of last resort. We get the IP addresses from honeypot emails, and it works pretty good. I have a daemon running in the background that uses a few intermediary tables with metrics like last seen, rate, total count, etc.. to

Re: spamassassin and caching nameservers

2016-08-22 Thread Rob McEwen
On 8/22/2016 9:15 PM, Alex wrote: Has anyone configured it as a local caching nameserver, and if so, could you share your config? Correct me if I'm wrong... but... I'm almost positive that rbldnsd acts ONLY as an authoritative name server, and not ever as a caching name server. I don't think

Re: spamassassin and caching nameservers

2016-08-22 Thread Marc Perkel
For what it's worth I use PowerDNS for a recursive nameserver and happy with it. Very easy to set up. On 08/22/16 18:15, Alex wrote: Hi all, I've just set up spamassassin on a cable connection that appears to have sporadic DNS timeouts using bind. It shouldn't be so slow that queries timeout, b

spamassassin and caching nameservers

2016-08-22 Thread Alex
Hi all, I've just set up spamassassin on a cable connection that appears to have sporadic DNS timeouts using bind. It shouldn't be so slow that queries timeout, but apparently they are. I'm hoping rbldnsd would provide that additional responsiveness needed. I've set up rbldnsd before, to be used a