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Date:      Sun, 7 Aug 2016 17:29:33 +0100
From:      RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Need advice for setting up mail server
Message-ID:  <20160807172933.33116306@gumby.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160807165256.78074e54154e43d3a696b22d@sohara.org>
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On Sun, 7 Aug 2016 16:52:56 +0100
Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:

> 
> 	For DNS there are many alternatives,  but for simplicity
> there's little to beat dnsmasq (perhaps not the most performant but
> good enough for a smallish network). I had unbound and nsd running
> for my DNS for a while, it was a *nightmare* that I never got working
> smoothly.

If you are running a mail server you shouldn't do DNSBL lookups through
a shared ISP DNS cache because the lists have per IP address limits.
This pretty much rules out dnsmasq since it can't do it's own lookups.



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