(Gone OT I think so we'd better take it off-list)
From Michael, received 20/6/01, 10:27 am -0500 (GMT):
> Would it be better if it worked from a filemaker front end? That would make
> it easy to keep track of why the IP was in the list.
Yes, the reason I was doing it from FileMaker was so users could
query a FileMaker (Lasso) web page to see why an IP was listed.
However, no reason it couldn't be managed in FileMaker and output as
a text file to have the AppleScript run on it.
> on 6/20/01 10:19 AM, Steve Linford at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> At 9:17 am -0500 (GMT) 18/6/01, Michael wrote:
>>> Hi Paul,
>>>
>>> Beta testing - yes very soon.
>>>
>>> I think the requirement may include a running a nameserver. Maybe I need
>>> automated email submissions or something. I was not planning on running
>>> something like orbs or mail-abuse. I created an applescript as a way to run
>>> my own blacklist. I thought this might be easer than trying to keep two
>>> mailservers up to date. So currently my script just takes a list of IP
>>> addresses and adds them (if needed) to a dns zone I use for spam
>>> blocking. I
>>> then have both of my mail servers use this as the first place in RBL
>>> lookups.
>>
>> Wow, if you've got this working then it's further than I got - I got
>> stuck trying to turn the dotted quads round and figure out an easy
>> way to remove entries from QDNS (but I was working from FileMaker,
>> adding and removing one IP at a time, whereas a script that just
>> reads IPs in from a long text file would be even better as that
>> updates the whole zone at once).
>>
>> Can I bug you for a copy of your script?
>
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