Re: [Asrg] Round 2 of the DNSBL BCP - "collateral damage"

[Matthew Sullivan <matthew at sorbs.net>]

Chris Lewis wrote:
> John Levine wrote:
>   
>>> Yeah, I think it should be example.com. I think it should be the same
>>> type of lookup that you would normally do. I think if you make the
>>> test lookup an IP, you will confuse novices into doing IP-based checks
>>> by accident.
>>>       
>> Agreed.  Looking at my DNS server logs, the people trying to use my DNSBL
>> are confused enough already.
>>     
>
> Does any RHSBL or URIBL currently publish a testing procedure?  If 
> nobody is, I'm afraid I might have to punt to a "yet to be determined 
> common testing mechanism" by the rules of C in BCP.
>
> SURBL _does_ publish IP entries now.
>
> Note that there is no reason why a RHSBL or URIBL couldn't use 127..., 
> other than perhaps confusion as to whether the octets should be reversed 
> or not.

SORBS uses example.com, and was told to use example.tld so does that as 
well.

/ Mat
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