On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 03:03:50PM -0600, imlinterconnect.net wrote:
> Ralf, that sure was a speedy response. Well I suppose it could be
> looked at like your question. However, let me go more into detail.
>
> mail-abuse.org has two forms of subscription.
>
> querymode and zone transfer.

I know.
 
> In query mode the mail server basically queries rbl.mail-abuse.org and
> does the lookup. In zone transfer mode a local dns server does a zone

I know.

> transfer of rbl.mail-abuse.org so the zone is actually on a local dns
> server.

I know.

> In postfix it doesn't seem to make a distinction on where it
> points...I stress "seem"...I could be missing it. I want to be sure

YOur resolver does this. If your local DNS (the box that transferred
the zone) is the one that your Postfix box queries, then this DNS
should server the RBL data.

> postfix is using the local dns server and not going out to
> mail-abuse.org's server to try to query it.

Understandable.

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