[121405] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Virbl: The First IPv6 enabled dnsbl?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Davidson)
Sun Jan 17 14:17:46 2010
From: Andy Davidson <andy@nosignal.org>
In-Reply-To: <757220502.276.1263619845706.JavaMail.root@lordsofacid.wiztech.biz>
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:16:58 +0000
To: Tammy A. Wisdom <tammy-lists@wiztech.biz>
Cc: mailop@mailop.org, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 16 Jan 2010, at 05:30, Tammy A. Wisdom wrote:
> Mark Schouten <marks@bit.nl> wrote:
>> http://virbl.bit.nl/index.php#ipv6
>> Comments on the listing method are appreciated.
> wow bind? thats gonna get slower and slower and slower. I hope you =
have a TON of ram for that box. for example
> if we loaded the current contents of the ahbl from rbldnsd to bind it =
would take up a TON of ram. bind would take forever to load and and =
would be screaming for its dear life.
These problems tend to have a way of solving themselves...
This dnsbl is trying to get experience handling v6 data in an anti-spam =
environment. We do not know how to do that today - and this is a =
problem which only reduces with experience. The problems of how to =
scale it, to me seem like a smaller challenge. There are enough clever =
people who understand how to scale specific dns issues. :-)
Good luck to the team at Virbl !
Andy=
