disabling caching of RBL queries
Brian Korver
briank at cs.stanford.edu
Fri Nov 30 22:07:39 UTC 2001
Chris Adams wrote:
>
> Once upon a time, Brian Korver <briank at cs.stanford.edu> said:
> >How does everyone currently prevent just the RBL queries from being cached?
> >Do people really have to set up 2 servers? This is for my home net, so
> >that isn't a reasonable option. :(
>
> Why do you need to prevent them from being cached? If they are run with
> anyone with the slightest bit of clue, they'll have low TTL (MAPS uses 5
> minutes). You _want_ them to be cached, because doing lots of lookups
> across the net for the same IP (because often the same IP _will_ hit you
> a lot in a short time).
Dunno who's responsible, but I've seen these entries cached for a lot
longer than 5 minutes. :(
brian
briank at cs.stanford.edu
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