Net::DNSBL::MultiDaemon - multi DNSBL prioritization
use Net::DNSBL::MultiDaemon qw(
:debug
run
bl_lookup
);
run($BLzone,$L,$R,$DNSBL,$STATs,$Run,$Sfile,$StatStamp,$DEBUG) bl_lookup($put,$mp,$rtp,$sinaddr,$alarm,$id,$rip,$type,$zone,@blist);
Net::DNSBL::MultiDaemon is the Perl module that implements the multi_dnsbl daemon.
multi_dnsbl is a DNS emulator daemon that increases the efficacy of DNSBL look-ups in a mail system. multi_dnsbl may be used as a stand-alone DNSBL or as a plug-in for a standard BIND 9 installation. multi_dnsbl shares a common configuration file format with the Mail::SpamCannibal sc_BLcheck.pl script so that DNSBL's can be maintained in a common configuration file for an entire mail installation.
Because DNSBL usefulness is dependent on the nature and source of spam sent to a specific site and because sometimes DNSBL's may provide intermittant service, multi_dnsbl interrogates them sorted in the order of greatest successful hits. DNSBL's that do not respond within the configured timeout period are not interrogated at all after 6 consecutive failures, and thereafter will be retried not more often than once every hour until they come back online. This eliminates the need to place DNSBL's in a particular order in your MTA's config file or periodically monitor the DNSBL statistics and/or update the MTA config file.
In addition to optimizing DNSBL interrogation, multi_dnsbl may be configured to locally accept or reject specified IP's, IP ranges and to reject specified countries by 2 character country code. By adding a DNSBL entry of in-addr.arpa, IP's will be rejected that do not return some kind of valid reverse DNS lookup. In addition, IP's can be rejected that have a PTR record that matchs a configurable GENERIC 'regexp' set.
Reject codes are as follows:
blocked by configured DNSBL 127.0.0.2 no reverse DNS 127.0.0.4 BLOCKED (local blacklist) 127.0.0.5 Blocked by Country 127.0.0.6 Blocked GENERIC 127.0.0.7
The configuration file for multi_dnsbl contains optional IGNORE (always pass), optional BLOCK (always reject), and optional BBC (block by country) entries against which all received queries are checked before external DNSBL's are queried. IP's which pass IGNORE, BLOCK, and BBC test are then checked against the prioritized list of DNSBL's to try when looking up an IP address for blacklisting. Internally, multi_dnsbl maintains this list in sorted order (including 'in-addr.arpa') based on the number of responses that resulted in an acceptable A record being returned from the DNSBL query. For each IP address query sent to multi_dnsbl, a query is sent to each configured DNSBL sequentially until all DNSBL's have been queried or an acceptable A record is returned.
Let us say for example that blackholes.easynet.nl (below) will return an A record and list.dsbl.org, bl.spamcop.net, dynablock.easynet.nl, will not.
LIST
9451 list.dsbl.org
6516 bl.spamcop.net
2350 dynablock.easynet.nl
575 blackholes.easynet.nl
327 cbl.abuseat.org
309 dnsbl.sorbs.net
195 dnsbl.njabl.org
167 sbl.spamhaus.org
22 spews.dnsbl.net.au
6 relays.ordb.org
1 proxies.blackholes.easynet.nl
0 dsbl.org
A query to multi_dnsbl (pseudo.dnsbl in this example) looks like this
QUERY
1.2.3.4.pseudo.dnsbl
|
V
####################
# multi_dnsbl #
####################
| RESPONSE
+--> 1.2.3.4.list.dsbl.org NXDOMAIN
|
+--> 1.2.3.4.bl.spamcop.net NXDOMAIN
|
+--> 1.2.3.4.dynablock.easynet.nl NXDOMAIN
|
+--> 1.2.3.4.blackholes.easynet.nl A-127.0.0.2
The A record is returned to originator of the Query and the statistics count on blackholes.easynet.nl is incremented by one.
multi_dnsbl can be installed as either a standalone DNSBL or as a plug-in to a BIND 9 installation on the same host. In either case, copy the rc.multi_daemon script to the appropriate startup directory on your host and modify the start, stop, restart scripts as required. Operation of the script is as follows:
Syntax: ./rc.multi_dnsbl start /path/to/config.file
./rc.multi_dnsbl start -v /path/to/config.file
./rc.multi_dnsbl stop /path/to/config.file
./rc.multi_dnsbl restart /path/to/config.file
The -v switch will print the scripts actions verbosely to the STDERR.
The configuration file for multi_dnsbl shares a common format with the Mail::SpamCannibal sc_BLcheck.pl script, facilitating common maintenance of DNSBL's for your MTA installation.
The sample configuration file multi_dnsbl.conf.sample is heavily commented with the details for each configuration element. If you plan to use a common configuration file in a SpamCannibal installation, simply add the following elements to the sc_BlackList.conf file:
MDstatfile => '/path/to/statistics/file.txt', MDpidpath => '/path/to/pidfiles', # /var/run MDzone => 'pseudo.dnsbl',
# OPTIONAL MDstatrefresh => 300, # seconds MDipaddr => '0.0.0.0', # PROBABLY NOT WHAT YOU WANT MDport => 9953,
=head2 STANDALONE OPERATION
For standalone operation, simply set MDport = 53, nothing more is required.
Interrogating the installation will then return the first match from the configured list of DNSBL servers.
i.e. dig 2.0.0.127.pseudo.dnsbl
.... results
Note that the results will contain all of the ``authority'' and ``additional'' (glue) records from the responding DNSBL placed into the additional section of the returned record that will have an authority record from of ``localhost''.
multi_dnsbl may be used as a plugin helper for a standard bind 9 installation by adding a forward zone to the configuration file as follows:
//zone pseudo.dnsbl
zone "pseudo.dnsbl" in {
type forward;
forward only;
forwarders {
127.0.0.1 port 9953;
};
};
You may also wish to add one or more of the following statements with appropriate address_match_lists to restrict access to the facility.
allow-notify {};
allow-query { address_match_list };
allow-recursion { address_match_list };
allow-transfer {};
Access to DNSBL lookup is configured in the normal fashion for each MTA. Since MTA's generally must interrogate on port 53, multi_dnsbl must be installed on a stand-alone server or as a plugin for BIND 9.
A typical configuration line for sendmail M4 configuration file is shown below:
FEATURE(`dnsbl',`pseudo.dnsbl',
`554 Rejected $&{client_addr} found in http://www.my.blacklist.org')dnl
multi_dnsbl responds to the following system signals:
Net::DNSBL::MultiDaemon provides most of the functions that implement multi_dnsbl which is an MTA helper that interrogates a list of DNSBL servers in preferential order based on their success rate.
The following describes the workings of individual functions used to implement multi_dnsbl.
input:
$BLzone zone name,
$L local listen socket object pointer,
$R remote socket object pointer,
$DNSBL config hash pointer,
$STATs statistics hash pointer
$Run pointer to stats refresh time, # must be non-zero
$Sfile statistics file path,
$StatStamp stat file initial time stamp
returns: nothing
$DNSBL = {
# Always allow these addresses
'IGNORE' => [ # OPTIONAL
# a single address
'11.22.33.44',
# a range of ip's, ONLY VALID WITHIN THE SAME CLASS 'C'
'22.33.44.55 - 22.33.44.65',
# a CIDR range
'5.6.7.16/28',
# a range specified with a netmask
'7.8.9.128/255.255.255.240',
# you may want these
'10.0.0.0/8',
'172.16.0.0/12',
'192.168.0.0/16',
# this should ALWAYS be here
'127.0.0.0/8', # ignore all test entries and localhost
],
# Authoratative answers
'AUTH' => 0,
# Always reject these addresses
'BLOCK' => [ # OPTIONAL
# same format as above
],
# Always block these countries
'BBC' => [qw(CN TW RO )],
# Check for reverse lookup failures - OPTIONAL
'in-addr.arpa' => {
timeout => 15, # default timeout is 30
},
# RBL zones as follows: OPTIONAL
'domain.name' => {
accept => {
'127.0.0.2' => 'comment',
'127.0.0.3' => 'comment',
},
# timeout => 30, # default seconds to wait for dnsbl
},
'next.domain' = {
etc....
# included but extracted external to B<run>
MDzone => 'pseudo.dnsbl',
MDstatfile => '/path/to/statistics/file.txt',
MDpidpath => '/path/to/pidfiles
# OPTIONAL, defaults shown
# MDstatrefresh => 300, # max seconds for refresh
# MDipaddr => '0.0.0.0', # PROBABLY NOT WHAT YOU WANT
# MDport => 9953,
# syslog. Specify the facility, one of:
# LOG_EMERG LOG_ALERT LOG_CRIT LOG_ERR LOG_WARNING LOG_NOTICE LOG_INFO LOG_DEBUG
# MDsyslog => 'LOG_WARNING',
};
Zone labels that are not of the form *.*... are ignored, making this hash table fully compatible with the SpamCannibal sc_Blacklist.conf file.
$STATs = {
'domain.name' => count,
etc...,
'CountryCode' => count,
etc...
};
Initialize this array with
cntinit($DNSBL,$cp) the Net::DNSBL::Utilities manpage/cntinit, then
list2hash($BBC,$cp) the Net::DNSBL::Utilities manpage/list2hash, then
statinit($Sfile,$cp) the Net::DNSBL::Utilities manpage/statinit, below.
i.e. /some/path/to/filename.ext
If $Sfile is undefined, then the time stamp need not be defined
statinit($Sfile,$cp) the Net::DNSBL::Utilities manpage/statinit, below.
input: put,
message pointer,
remote thread pointer,
sockinaddr,
connection timeout,
id of question,
reverse IP address in text
type of query received, (used in response)
ORIGINAL zone (case preserved),
array of remaining DNSBL's in sorted order
returns: nothing, puts stuff in thread queue
Unix::Syslog
Geo::IP::PurePerl
NetAddr::IP
Net::DNS::Codes
Net::DNS::ToolKit
run
bl_lookup
DEBUG is a set of semaphores for the 'run' function
$D_CLRRUN = 0x1; # clear run flag and force unconditional return $D_SHRTHD = 0x2; # return short header message $D_TIMONLY = 0x4; # exit at end of timer section $D_QRESP = 0x8; # return query response message $D_NOTME = 0x10; # return received response not for me $D_ANSTOP = 0x20; # clear run OK flag if ANSWER present $D_VERBOSE = 0x40; # verbose debug statements to STDERR
Michael Robinton, michael@bizsystems.com
Copyright 2003, Michael Robinton & BizSystems 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., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
the Net::DNSBL::Utilities manpage, the Net::DNS::Codes manpage, the Net::DNS::ToolKit manpage, the Mail::SpamCannibal manpage