Charon Gem Version

A Ruby library to query the Zen service on SpamHaus.org

http://rubygems.org/gems/charon

Installation and Usage

You can verify your installation using this piece of code:

“sh gem install charon

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“by require ‘charon’

Charon.query ‘127.0.0.1’

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Return Values

Charon.query will return nil if the given address or host is not present in the spamhaus database, otherwise it will return an array in the form:

[ code, name of the list ]

Where codes and lists, as defined on http://www.spamhaus.org/zen/ are:

  • 2 - Direct UBE sources, spam operations & spam services.
  • 3 - Direct snowshoe spam sources detected via automation.
  • 4..7 - CBL (3rd party exploits such as proxies, trojans, etc.).
  • 10..11 - End-user Non-MTA IP addresses set by ISP outbound mail policy.

License

Released under the BSD license.
Copyright © 2013, Simone Margaritelli evilsocket@gmail.com

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