On Sun, 2012-05-06 at 09:43:07 -0400, Wietse Venema wrote:
> ...
> > > By the way, what is going on with your DNS? Why do both DNSBL replies
> > > arrive (almost) simultaneously after two seconds?
> 
> My bad. postscreen reports 'DNSBL rank' after two seconds.

Phew.  At least we're on the same page in that regard. :-)

> ... 
> postscreen will report DNSBL results when *ALL* lookups
> complete or when the postscreen_greet_wait timer expires.

Aye.

> ... 
> > Ah, this is what confuses me: the exact same DNSBL hits resulted in a
> > rank of 5 so many times earlier, and the underlying configuration (i.e.
> > the weights per DNSBL) have not changed in quite some time, so I
> > expected to see a 5 rank here again.  
> 
> I repeat, perhaps some bit got flipped as the dnsblog daemon reported
> its results to the postscreen daemon; postscreen '-v' logging will
> show how it maintains DNSBL scores.

OK, thanks; I'm now running postscreen with '-v' and will report back if
the same scenario recurs.

-- 
Sahil Tandon

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