On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Rob McEwen wrote: > Andy Dills wrote: > > ...the people in charge of uribl.com have decided to set a pretty low > > threshold for blacklisting DNS servers from querying, demanding that people > > who hit that threshold pay them a rather exorbitant rate for a data feed. > > > > Andy, > > Does the fee you describe pay for (a) being allowed to do a high volume of > direct DNS queries, ..OR.. (b) does it pay for an RSYNC feed to > rbldnsd-formatted files?
It's for some sort of rynsc-like feed (I don't believe it uses rsync). I don't believe they offer (a). > If that is for high-volume direct queries, then why not check and see what an > RSYNC-feed of an rbldnsd-formatted file might do for you, and the costs of the > RSYNC feed? Yeah, it's just a bottom line reality that the cheapest fee they will accept ($1450/year) in no way corresponds to any sort of bottom-line ROI. The cost is out of line with the value of their service. > (Also, at one point, you mentioned SURBL... but that was a typo and you are > talking about URIBL, correct?) Yes, sorry...I meant URIBL. The SURBL people have always been very cool. Andy --- Andy Dills Xecunet, Inc. www.xecu.net 301-682-9972 ---
