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| <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> |
| <pkgmetadata> |
| <maintainer type="person"> |
| <email>mjo@gentoo.org</email> |
| <name>Michael Orlitzky</name> |
| </maintainer> |
| |
| <longdescription lang="en"> |
| rbldnsd is a small and fast DNS daemon which is especially made to |
| serve DNSBL zones. This daemon was inspired by Dan J. Bernstein's |
| rbldns program found in the djbdns package. |
| |
| rbldnsd is extremely fast - it outperforms both bind and djbdns |
| greatly. It has very small memory footprint. |
| |
| The daemon can serve both IP-based (ordb.org, dsbl.org etc) and |
| name-based (rfc-ignorant.org) blocklists. Unlike DJB's rbldns, it |
| has ability to specify individual values for every entry, can |
| serve as many zones on a single IP address as you wish, and, |
| finally, it is a real nameserver: it can reply to DNS metadata |
| requests. The daemon keeps all zones in memory for faster |
| operations, but its memory usage is very efficient, especially for |
| repeated TXT values which are stored only once. |
| </longdescription> |
| </pkgmetadata> |