On 10/31/03 at 05:57, Joe Sporleder wrote:
> Is there a "limit" on how my lines of IP addresses I can have listed in
> my SMTP blacklist?
There is a size limit. I don't think it's the number of lines, though,
rather it's the size of the text data. I don't know for sure, but I suspect
the limit is probably 32K. I ran into it a while back because I use a lot
of comments in my blacklist to document when and why entries are made. I
think I had about 300 lines when I first hit the limit. Since then, I've
started keeping the commented version in a text file. I have an AppleScript
that I use with BBEdit to strip the comments, remove extraneous spaces and
copy the blacklist to the clipboard so that I can paste it into SIMS. I use
the same script with my router as well (lots of entries routing bad guys to
'error'). My current uncommented blacklist is 654 lines with 17,717
characters.
> I have blocked all of the subnets in a range, i.e. a.b.c.0-a.b.c.255.
> I subscribe to about 10 RBLs, and then I have close to 175 lines
> worth of IPs blocked on my own, and there are some days it seems like
> this isn't putting much of a dent in the junk mail.
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