rbl and timeout

[Matt Kettler]

Alessandro Dentella wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
>   and now the questions related to rbl and dns. 
> 
>   At the moment I'm using bind9 on the mail server (on debian). Is that a
>   casching nameserver, is there a way to test if it is working correctly?
> 
>   I'm confused as for how rbldnsd should get into the setup. After I set it
>   up should I substitute it to bind? should I declare it in MailScanner.conf
>   / spamassassin?
> 

Generally I'd suggest using a forward zone declaration in your resolving named. 
This way anything using your resolving named for lookup will recurse to the 
rbldnsd instead of the interent.

in named.conf you'd do something like this:


zone "somerbl.com" {
         type forward;
           forwarders {
                 192.168.1.2;
         };
};


Where 192.168.1.2 is your server running rbldnsd. If it's running on a 
nonstandard port, such as 5353 just change to:

zone "somerbl.com" {
         type forward;
           forwarders {
                 192.168.1.2 port 5353;
         };
};