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Re: Open Proxy list / DR discussion list.

  • From: Will Yardley
  • Date: Tue Aug 16 15:11:27 2005 
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 08:01:20PM +0100, Alice Stamping wrote:

>  - Is anyone maintaing a real-time list of known open web-proxies?  I
> run a small network hosting several forum sites, and I want to build
> something I can query regularly (say, hourly or daily) that will let
> me string something together in perl to build access-lists to throttle
> or block them altogether at our border.

There are some dnsbls you could use (cbl, sorbs, opm, etc.). You could
have your code query them, or even try using mod_dnsbl.

If you want to have your own list, you could write something to extract
a list from the dnsbl zone files, assuming you can get AXFR / rsync
access.
 
w