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Use resolver processes even if we don't have the interfaces, and need to use gethostbyname.
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date Sat, 08 Jan 2005 12:26:30 -0800
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1 $Id$
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3 4.2 2005-01-08
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4 Use the separate resolver processes even if we don't have the
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5 resolver interfaces and need gethostbyname.
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7 4.1 2005-01-06
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8 Use a local unix domain socket for the resolver process
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9 communication, rather than a tcp/ip socket.
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11 4.0 2005-01-03
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12 Initialize the thread mutex objects early, before they are needed
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13 by possible calls to my_syslog.
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15 Fork off a separate resolver listener process, so we can do multiple
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16 dns operations in parallel. For each simultaneous inbound email,
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17 we have a separate sendmail process, a milter thread, and a dns
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18 resolver process.
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20 3.7 2004-10-28
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21 Added an 'ignore' command to the conf file, used to ignore some
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22 hosts that might end up on the SBL and otherwise trip the content
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23 scanning filter. In particular, many recent Microsoft Word
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24 documents contain the string www.5iantlavalamp.com which is
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25 associated with their smart tags stuff. That is currently hosted at
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26 216.168.224.70, which is shared with a site that ended up on the
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27 SBL.
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29 3.6 2004-09-08
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30 Contributions from Dan Harkless <software@harkless.org>
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31 Better documentation for disabling the content filtering.
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32 Don't bother looking at the body text if we are not doing
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33 content filtering.
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35 3.5 2004-07-17
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36 Extend the error message for content filtering when the NS record
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37 points to an ip address on the SBL. Include the original host name
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38 that referenced that NS name.
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a84752107aca host names cannot have consecutive periods.
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41 3.4 2004-07-15
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42 Tokens with two consecutive periods cannot be ip addresses or host
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43 names.
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45 Updated dnsbl.spec file for building rpms from John Gunkel.
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48 3.3 2004-07-09
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49 Drop root priviledges properly, including the group id.
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52 3.2 2004-07-09
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54 Contributions from John Gunkel <jgunkel@palliser.ca>:
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55 Add .spec file for building rpms, contributed by John Gunkel
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57 Changes to file layout to conform to RedHat/LSB standards.
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59 Add some html (actually xml) tags used by Apple mac print
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60 subsystem that were tripping the html tag detector.
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62 Help with changes required to allow dnsbl to drop root
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63 priviledges. Move the socket to /var/run/dnsbl/dnsbl.sock
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65 Change parser to handle &#xnnn; obfuscated urls with charaters
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66 specified in hex.
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68 Make bad_html tags more sensitive to binary tags, to reduce false
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69 positives in .zip or .tar.gz file attachments.
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71 Add sendmail queueid to the dnsbl syslog messages.
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73 Fix one place where host names were not forced to lower case.
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74 Discovered by Nigel Horne <njh@bandsman.co.uk>
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76 Remove duplicate dns queries within the same smtp transaction from
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77 the body content filtering. This helps if the mail server does not
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78 have a nearby caching dns server.
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80 Add host_soft_limit config keyword. Use only one of host_limit or
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81 host_soft_limit, since the last one wins. The host_limit is a hard
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82 upper limit on the number of host names in a message. The
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83 host_soft_limit allows unlimited host names, but only checks a
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84 random sample of them against the dnsbl.
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86 The main thread has dropped root priviledges, but other threads
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87 are still running as root. This needs to be fixed.