FYI SURBL update

[Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions]

Mr Michele Neylon
Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd
http://www.blacknight.ie/
Tel. +353 59 9137101


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Chan [mailto:jeffc at surbl.org]
> Sent: 23 May 2004 02:28
> To: yooman at fnet.pl
> Cc: SpamAssassin Users
> Subject: ANNOUNCE: SURBL DNS thanks, sa.surbl.org removal
>
> The SURBL community, including developers, users, fans and
> all would like to thank the people and networks who have
> volunteered to carry our SURBL zones on their public name
> servers.  In no particular order, they are:
>
>   Kelsey Cummings and sonic.net
>   Raymond Dijkxhoorn and tudelft.nl
>   Bill Stearns and pa.net
>   Erik O'Connor and littleredbat.net/supranet.net
>   Dave Funk and icaen.uiowa.edu
>   Doc Schneider and maddoc.com
>   Mark Reynolds and telstra.net
>   David Coulson and davidcoulson.net
>   Richard Zuidhof and zonnet.nl
>   Daryl Jones and smrn.com
>   Vincent Schonau and xs4all.nl
>
> Left off this list are some specific network and facilities
> providers where some of the name servers are located, so
> we'll leave it to our friends to forward our thanks to them.
> This project would not be possible without our great public
> DNS servers thus far, so our hearty thanks go out to everyone
> helping to get the SURBL data out.
>
> We also encourage anyone else with DS3 or faster network
> connections to consider helping us provide DNS for these zones.
> Interest in using SURBLs is ramping up from many different
> projects and people, but when SpamAssassin 3.0 comes out in a
> few months with its built-in support for SURBLs, the DNS
> traffic will probably jump significantly.  So we could
> probably still use some more help with DNS.  Please let us
> know if you can help.
>
> Expect DNS traffic to max out around 1 or 2 Megabits per
> second if things really take off.  Also the more servers we
> have the less traffic each one does, so a larger community
> helps to share the load!
>
> *************************************************************
> We also want to strongly encourage any high-volume users of
> SURBLs to set up local caching name servers for the zones in
> order to offload the public name servers.  Probably the best
> way to do this is with rbldnsd and rsync, though BIND
> versions of the zone files are also available via rsync.
> Please contact Raymond at rsync at surbl dot org with your
> name server's IP address in order to get rsync access.  This
> will help keep the load on the public name servers
> reasonable, and it's also good engineering practice since it
> will get you the best performance for using SURBLs.  To
> re-iterate, if you're running a high volume mail server,
> please do your SURBL queries from your local name server by
> pulling the zones using rsync and not from the public
> servers.  Thanks!
> *************************************************************
>
> Also, we'd like to remind all SURBL users that the name of
> the SURBL list derived from Bill Stearns' sa-blacklist has
> changed from sa.surbl.org to ws.surbl.org.  If you are using
> the old name please change your configs to use the new name.
> After checking that DNS traffic for the old name is minimal,
> we are ceasing DNS
> service on the old name now, so use ws.surbl.org now!   The
> different SURBL lists are described at our site:
>
>   http://www.surbl.org/
>
> Please forward this message to any interested parties.  It
> seems to be getting more difficult to keep in contact with
> everyone using SURBLs, so a little help getting the word out
> could be useful.
>
> Thanks everyone!
>
> Jeff C.
> --
> Jeff Chan
> mailto:jeffc at surbl.org
> http://www.surbl.org/
>
>
>
>
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