Debian Package a Day (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} debaday) wrote,@ 2004-09-24 08:00:00 |
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rblcheck - Tool to Query RBL Servers
Yet another from Robert Waldner, my hero!
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This program is a very basic interface to DNS Blackhole Lists. The basic idea of the filter is that when someone is blacklisted for email abuse of some sort, a new domain name is resolved of the form "2.0.0.127.domain.name.com", where 2.0.0.127 is the abusive IP address in reverse (for example, 2.0.0.127 would be the IP address 127.0.0.2), and "domain.name.com" is the base domain name of the filtering service.
Yet another from Robert Waldner, my hero!
Personally, I use rblcheck out of cron to regularly check if a machine I feel somehow responsible over (read: those I've set up for friends/customers who now maintain it by themselves) landed on one of the various RBLs, before their lusers come screaming bloody hell because they can't get that urgent mail out.
More information on this package can be found on the Debian web site.
(If there is a package you would like to see featured here, go to the userinfo page and follow the directions there to submit your entry.)
Now available in RSS and ATOM flavors too.
