[Asrg] For DNSBLs, embedded IPv4 in IPv6

Chris Lewis clewis at nortel.com
Mon Aug 4 08:30:38 PDT 2008


Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz wrote:

> A and TXT records were the way found, years ago, to implement DNSBL 
> without creating new kind of DNS records.
> 
> In fact, as long as I understand, the A record is useful to return a 
> machine handleable code allowing to specify, why the record is listed. 
> The TXT record contains human readable information.

Right: MOST DNSBLs return A records to bitmap/flag listings.

However, there are a few DNSBLs that return machine-readable in the TXT. 
  Eg: routeviews.


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