[117436] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Repeated Blacklisting / IP reputation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Cloos)
Sat Sep 12 20:18:14 2009
From: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>
To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
In-Reply-To: <200909122110.n8CLAbpE046363@aurora.sol.net> (Joe Greco's message
of "Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:10:37 -0500 (CDT)")
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:16:42 -0400
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>>>>> "Joe" == Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> writes:
Joe> So, you agree, MTA's do not implement this functionality. It's
Joe> obviously possible to make it happen through shell scripting,
Joe> database tricks,
No, I do not agree.
The sql backend is part of the MTA; features added by offering a sql
backend for tables of this sort (I'd use a cidr access restriction
in postfix) are still features of the MTA.
And actually using the power of sql when using sql is not a trick;
rather it is the /point/.
IOW, the MTA is the sum of its parts; when using sql lookups the db
is part of the MTA.
-JimC
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