Re: [dmarc-ietf] Doing a tree walk rather than PSL lookup

[John R Levine <[e-mail]>]

> Right.  The optimal solution would be to load the list and the lookup 
> algorithm as a shared object.  Currently, my filter has its private copy of 
> it.  But then I don't reload the filter so often that parsing the file is 
> noticeable.  To wit, loading the virus database takes much much longer.

Indeed.  I don't think that processing the PSL is an overwhelming amount 
of work, but I also don't think there is much difference in performance 
between using the PSL and making DNS queries that are likely to be 
answered from a local cache.

> "Holy Roman Empire"

Organizations, typically universities, where the nominal organization tree 
and the actual control are different.  The PSL isn't useful because the 
party that controls their Org domain often doesn't control lower parts of 
the DNS tree.

Regards,
John Levine, [e-mail], Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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