RBL cache {Scanned by HJMS}

[Antony Stone]

On Saturday 13 September 2003 3:46 pm, Ugo Bellavance wrote:

> >My point is that RBL queries *are* DNS queries.
>
> I'm terribly sorry.  I effectively didn't realise that.  I looked at the
> link you gave, and please tell me if I'm wrong.  To do a RBL query, we
> simply do a reverse-lookup on the IP address, using a RBL server as DNS
> server, instead of a conventionnal mail server, and if the result is part

s/mail/DNS/   :)

> of a particular zone, the server is identified as a spam source?

Correct :)

Antony.

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