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https://github.com/logic/rblcheck

Command-line interface to RBL-style filter lists
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rblcheck 1.5 - Command-line interface to RBL-style filters.

Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 Edward S. Marshall 



This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it

under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free

Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option)

any later version.



This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but

WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY

or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License

for more details.



You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along

with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,

675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.



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This program is a very basic interface to DNS listings such as the RBL

filter operated by the MAPS project. The basic idea of the filter is that

when someone is listed (for example, a blacklist for email abusers), 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 (such as "blackholes.mail-abuse.org",

for the MAPS project RBL filter).



To learn how to build this program, please read docs/INSTALL. Seriously.



rblcheck has only been tested by the author under Red Hat Linux 7.0,

Debian Linux 2.2r2, and Solaris 7, but there is no reason why it shouldn't

work on other platforms, assuming a working resolver library exists (the

one from BIND will work perfectly if your operating system does not supply

a libresolv). Please see docs/PLATFORMS for more platforms that we think 

might work.



For more information about RBL-style blacklists, please see the "sites.h"

file, which contains pointers to several RBL-alike listings, or refer to

era eriksson's list at http://www.iki.fi/era/rbl/rbl.html .



The official home for rblcheck is http://rblcheck.sourceforge.net/ . Any

ideas, bugfixes, porting notes, or requests for pizza delivery directions

should be sent to the rblcheck mailing list; please see the subscription 

page at http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/rblcheck-users/ .



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Edward S. Marshall