OT: Rbldnsd and Spamhaus setup

[Michael Baird]

Turn on logging in rbldnsd, you will quickly see if it is being utilized.

Regards
Michael Baird

> I'm configuring my servers to use Spamhaus datafeed service and I'm not
> convinced that MailScanner is using Rbldnsd as I still see queries to
> zen.spamhaus.org in the data queries log file.
> 
> I though perhaps the queries might have been from spamassassin, so I set
> "skip_rbl_checks 1" in the mailscanner.cf and restarted MailScanner.  I
> still had DNS queries appearing in the bind log file.
> 
> I need another set of eyes to look at this config and tell me what I'm
> missing.
> 
> Running: Centos 5.0, MailScanner v4.62.9
> 
> /etc/sysconfig/rbldnsd:
> # the first line tells rbldnsd to
> # chroot (-r) to /usr/local/dnsbl, and
> # then bind (-b) to 127.0.0.6 and
> # then (-f) fork child during reloads and
> # then (-w) specify the working directory where rbldnsd will find its
> files,
> RBLDNSD="dnsbl -r /usr/local/dnsbl -b 127.0.0.6 -f -w rbldnsd \
>   sbl.dnsbl:ip4set:sbl  \
>   pbl.dnsbl:ip4trie:pbl \
>   xbl.dnsbl:ip4tset:xbl \
>   zen.dnsbl:ip4set:sbl  \
>   zen.dnsbl:ip4trie:pbl \
>   zen.dnsbl:ip4tset:xbl
> "
> # eof
> 
> 
> /etc/named.conf:
> zone "dnsbl" IN {
>         type forward;
>         forward only;
>         forwarders { 127.0.0.6; };
> };
> 
> 
> /etc/MailScanner/spam.lists.conf:
> spamhaus-ZEN-local              dnsbl.  <=== trailing period
> 
> 
> /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf:
> Spam List = spamhaus-ZEN-local
> 
> service rbldnsd restart
> MailScanner --lint > show ok
> service MailScanner restart
> 
> 
> thanks
> Brad
> 
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