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surblhost(1) USER COMMANDS surblhost(1) NAME surblhost - check if hostnames are blacklisted by surbl.org SYNOPSIS surblhost [ options ] [ host(s) ] DESCRIPTION surblhost will check if the given hostnames are blacklisted by surbl.org. Blacklisting means that global spam mail contains links to the given hostnames, and should therefore be avoided. Although surbl.org is usually used in mail transfer agents for identi- fying spam, you can use it for a lot of other purposes. OPTIONS - Read hostnames from standard input, separated by newlines. --check-whitelist Explicitly checks each and every entry in the pre-compiled and user-submitted whitelist against the SURBL lists. This is good to check if the whitelist is indeed OK, especially when you compile your own. When you set up a system to use your own whitelist, it is suffi- cient to run this command every once in a while -- you should *not* run it every time you check a host. -h --help Print help text. --no-surbl Do not use the default multi.surbl.org as hostname suffix when doing DNS A record lookups. That means you have to specify your hostnames in the form somewhere.com.multi.surbl.org, or simi- larly if you want to use other lookup providers than surbl.org. This is the same as using --surbl=''. --print-tlds Print the two-level TLDs that are used for recognizing domains such as co.uk. --print-whitelist Prints the predefined whitelist that is hardcoded into surbl- host. This list is derived from the SpamAssassin whitelist at http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.1.x/dist/rules/25_uribl.cf and is pretty safe to hard-code. The point of the whitelist is to reduce the number of DNS lookups needed for common hostnames. -q --quiet Quiet output; useful when you just want to check the exit code of the program to determine if the given host(s) are black- listed. -r --recursive Recursively checks all subdomains for a given host. Example: If you submit sub2.sub1.somewhere.com to surblhost with this op- tion, the following domains will be checked for blacklisting: sub2.sub1.somewhere.com, sub1.somewhere.com, somewhere.com. Note that the SURBL.org guidelines says they will only list somewhere.com, but this option has been implemented because some TLD countrycodes are a bit tricky. This is the situation with e.g. co.uk domains. If you want to check somewhere.co.uk, then using the -s option will not work very well, as it will check "co.uk" instead of "somewhere.co.uk". Using the recursive op- tions works around this. -f --skip-whitelist Skip checking hostnames against the whitelists. You should al- most never use this option, as the whitelist is designed to re- duce the number of DNS lookups for most common hostnames. See --print-whitelist. -s --strip-sub Strips subdomains from the hostnames given on the commandline, i.e. `surblhost -s foo.bar.com' will only check if bar.com is blacklisted. Two-level TLDs are recognized, so if you check www.somewhere.co.uk and use this option, then only some- where.co.uk will be looked up. --surbl=... Set the surbl suffix yourself. The default value is multi.surbl.org, but you can use other provides to check against blacklists at your will. You just have to be sure that the re- turned IP-addresses are in the same format as given by the surbl guidelines at http://www.surbl.org --test Tests against a permanent testpoint, which should always be blacklisted. --tlds=file Read two-level TLDs from given file. You should put one entry per line. An example of a two-level TLD is "co.uk". --tlds-add=file Same as --tlds=file, but adds the contents of file to the list. -v --verbose Give verbose output. This is recommended to give a feel of what is actually being done. -V --version Show program version and exit. --whitelist=file Reads whitelist from given file. You should put one entry per line. --whitelist-add=file Same as --whitelist=file, but adds the contents to the whitelist. RETURN VALUES Surblhost returns 0 when no of the hostnames are blacklisted. It re- turns 1 for errors, and 2 when one or more sites are blacklisted. EXAMPLE: USING WITH SCRIPTS Here is a complete BASH script that uses the exit code from surblhost to check the status of given hostnames: #!/bin/bash # Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Christian Stigen Larsen # This script is placed in the public domain. if test "$#" == "0" ; then echo "usage: lookup [ hostname(s) ]" echo "looks up if hosts are blocked by surbl.org" exit 1 fi while test ! -z "${1}" ; do echo -n "checking ${1} ... " surblhost -q -r 2>/dev/null ${1} if test "$?" == "2"; then echo "blocked" else echo "not blocked" fi shift done echo "" echo "for more information, see http://www.surbl.org/lists.html" exit 0 BUGS This is still an early release, so there should be some code bugs. Be sure to report anything to the author below. If you have suggestions or patches, the author will be very happy to hear from you. AUTHOR Christian Stigen Larsen <csl@sublevel3.org> -- http://csl.sublevel3.org LICENSE surblhost is distributed under the GNU General Public License v2. version 0.8 April 9, 2007 surblhost(1)
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