RRL probably not useful for DNS IP blacklists, was Re: New Versions of BIND are available (9.9.4, 9.8.6, and 9.6-ESV-R10)

[Chris Buxton]

On Sep 23, 2013, at 7:59 AM, Vernon Schryver <vjs at rhyolite.com> wrote:

> From: Eliezer Croitoru <eliezer at ngtech.co.il>
> 
>> I was looking for something like that but I am sure a dynamic DB is
>> needed for the task right?
> 
> Large DNSBLs are not very dynamic, because they have relatively few
> changes per day.  From another perspective, with the popularity of
> dynamically updating forward and reverse DNS zones as end-user IP
> addresses changes, why isn't the the machinery in any full featured
> DNS implementation a "dyanamic DB"?  The term "database" should not
> imply "sql" or even "relational."

Indeed, a DNS server is a type of database server. The DNS is a large distributed database.

Regards,
Chris