On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:57:31 -0500
"mike.ashton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Issue, two large email sources for us, apple.com (mac.com) and
> bellnexxia.net ( Bell Canada / Sympatico ) are now being rejected by
> check_earlytalker.
[...]
> I definitely do not want to turn off check_earlytalker since it rejects
> about 30,000 connections a day for me. I've tried sending email to the
> support teams at both to tell them of the issue but of course that fell into
> a black hole most likely.
>
> Reason for this email was to possibly alert others to the issue before it
> bites you when someone screams at you that they're not getting important
> email. And secondly to see what thoughts anyone has on a solution or work
> around.
>
> I've thought of implienting dns_whitelist_soft but these guys have a lot of
> servers and how do you go about making sure you get them all?
The dns_whitelist_soft in the distribution won't do this for you, the
answer is fetched at rctp. The dnswl plugin in svn contrib looks up a
local db on connect and stores a connection note ("dnswl") with the
score. I have switched off the check_earlytalker (and some other
plugins) for all hosts with a score of >= 0.
The dnswl.org data seems to be complete for your case, if not: the
plugin supports local additions/overrides by loading it a second time
with another file.
Hanno
