Re: Last Call: draft-irtf-asrg-dnsbl (DNS Blacklists and Whitelists)

John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> Sun, 16 November 2008 21:46 UTC

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Subject: Re: Last Call: draft-irtf-asrg-dnsbl (DNS Blacklists and Whitelists)
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>The expectation is that error messages generated from TXT records
>contain the actual IP addresses which triggered the DNSBL lookups.  As
>a result, if you list a /16 (say), you need publish 65,536 different
>TXT records.

Some do, some don't.  In any event I agree that DNSSEC is not ideally
suited to signing DNSBLs, but I would think that with some judicious
partitioning into subzones the problem wouldn't be intractable.

R's,
John
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