I have it on my plate for quite some time and I was wondering about the options and interest in the subject. Intro: Currently most free blacklists are distributed in the old fashion way of a tar or other file. There are benefits to these but I have not seen an option to be able to "help" each other. For example many proxy servers "knows" about a domain that other do not. So even if the site exists and know in one side of the planet it's not in another. If it could be categorized or white\black listed in one side of the planet why we cannot help each other? Many admins adds sites to their DB and list but not many share them publically. The idea: As an example Google and Mozilla services advertise malware infected sites using their browser. Many filtering solutions uses their clients logs to inspect and enhance their lists. There are many distributed key+value DB systems such as etcd and many others DHT based. I believe that somehow a url categorizing and black\white lists can be advertised in a similar way. The only limit is the "bootstap" or the "routers" of such a network. Since such a service should only apply to KEYS and values which today should not exceed 1MB I believe it would be pretty simple to create networks based on that. Once a network category or scheme can be defined it would be pretty simple to "match" or "connect" between the relevant nodes. Currently I am looking at the different options for the backend DB, permissions and hierarchy which should give an admin a nice start point. Such "online network" can be up and running pretty fast and it can enhance the regular categories and lists to be more up-to-date. Else then the actual categorizing and listing I believe that it would be possible to share and generate a list of public domains which are known compared to the current state which many parts of the web is "unknown". If you wish to participate in any of the above ideas please contact me here or privately. Eliezer ---- Eliezer Croitoru <http://ngtech.co.il/lmgtfy/> Linux System Administrator Mobile: +972-5-28704261 Email: eliezer@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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