Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:07:25 -0900 From: Royce Williams <royce@alaska.net> To: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, "Chris H." <chris#@1command.com> Subject: Re: What's new on the 127.0.0/24 block in 7? Message-ID: <47CCBCED.6040301@alaska.net> In-Reply-To: <20080304022120.GA67410@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <20080303174335.xzd80uz0so48o8sk@webmail.1command.com> <20080304022120.GA67410@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
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Jeremy Chadwick wrote, on 3/3/2008 5:21 PM: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 05:43:35PM -0800, Chris H. wrote: > I've looked at this software: http://www.corpit.ru/mjt/rbldnsd.html > > Why exactly do you need this software to bind to 127.0.0.2 or 127.0.0.3? > I don't see any indication of it needing that. DNS-based RBLs don't > work like that, so I'm confused by this request. It's not uncommon to configure BIND to forward requests for a DNSBL zone to another local listener, so that one can take advantage of both BIND local zones and rbldnsd local zones. See http://www.njabl.org/rsync.html for an example -- the BIND config of which looks like: zone "dnsbl.njabl.org" IN { type forward; forward first; forwarders { 127.0.0.1 port 530; }; }; Royce -- Royce D. Williams - IP Engineering, ACS http://www.tycho.org/royce/ - PGP: 3FC087DB/1776A531 Amid a multitude of projects, no plan is devised. - Syrus
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