Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix - PartII

2010-05-17 Thread Arun Khan
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:40 PM, wrote: > I obviously have more testing to do, but I welcome any comments... > I don't have any solution to your problem but ... I have seen something similar on a Debian box running a local BIND server. Repo is defined as "ftp.debian.org". apt-get install giv

[CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix - PartII

2010-05-17 Thread listserv . traffic
Recap of config (There's a "New" section below that covers new data...) --- Current config: CentOS 5, running BIND 9.3.6 *** (We updated everything to most recent versions when this was initially posted, mid April, and it made no difference in the symptoms.) i386 Hardware: P4, 2.8Ghz, 1G mem

Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

2010-04-16 Thread Lorenzo Quatrini
listserv.traf...@sloop.net ha scritto: > Problem: > Postfix is doing RBL lookups on zen.spamhaus.org. > Everything goes along groovy - but then lookups start failing. Just some toughs: you could try to install rbldnsd.i386 from rpmforge repo for caching rbl lookups > I certainly suspect a proble

Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

2010-04-15 Thread Nataraj
Larry Vaden wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Scott Silva wrote: > >> on 4-15-2010 1:36 PM Larry Vaden spake the following: >> >>> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Ned Slider wrote: >>> Larry Vaden wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Ned Slider

Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

2010-04-15 Thread Larry Vaden
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Scott Silva wrote: > on 4-15-2010 1:36 PM Larry Vaden spake the following: >> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Ned Slider wrote: >>> Larry Vaden wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Ned Slider wrote: > Changing dns to public services such as google or

Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

2010-04-15 Thread Scott Silva
on 4-15-2010 1:36 PM Larry Vaden spake the following: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Ned Slider wrote: >> Larry Vaden wrote: >>> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Ned Slider wrote: Changing dns to public services such as google or OpenDNS is not going to help as DNSBLs like Spamhaus

Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

2010-04-15 Thread Larry Vaden
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Ned Slider wrote: > Larry Vaden wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Ned Slider wrote: >>> Changing dns to public services such as google or OpenDNS is not going >>> to help as DNSBLs like Spamhaus will have blocked access by these >>> services. Otherwise it

Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

2010-04-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/15/2010 3:00 PM, listserv.traf...@sloop.net wrote: > >> What happens if you change your resolv.conf to google's dns ? > I haven't tried this, but from reports, spamhaus.org blocks google's dns. [The > traffic limits are too high. If they didn't, no one would buy a > commercial zone transfer li

Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

2010-04-15 Thread Ned Slider
Larry Vaden wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Ned Slider wrote: >> Changing dns to public services such as google or OpenDNS is not going >> to help as DNSBLs like Spamhaus will have blocked access by these >> services. Otherwise it would be simple to avoid paying for (business) >> access

Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

2010-04-15 Thread Larry Vaden
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Ned Slider wrote: > > Changing dns to public services such as google or OpenDNS is not going > to help as DNSBLs like Spamhaus will have blocked access by these > services. Otherwise it would be simple to avoid paying for (business) > access to Spamhaus. Au contra

Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

2010-04-15 Thread Bowie Bailey
listserv.traf...@sloop.net wrote: >> What happens if you change your resolv.conf to google's dns ? >> > I haven't tried this, but from reports, spamhaus.org blocks google's dns. [The > traffic limits are too high. If they didn't, no one would buy a > commercial zone transfer license...] > > So

Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

2010-04-15 Thread Ned Slider
sys Admin wrote: > What happens if you change your resolv.conf to google's dns ? > > Changing dns to public services such as google or OpenDNS is not going to help as DNSBLs like Spamhaus will have blocked access by these services. Otherwise it would be simple to avoid paying for (business) a

Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

2010-04-15 Thread listserv . traffic
> What happens if you change your resolv.conf to google's dns ? I haven't tried this, but from reports, spamhaus.org blocks google's dns. [The traffic limits are too high. If they didn't, no one would buy a commercial zone transfer license...] So, while it's not likely to fix this problem, even i

Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

2010-04-15 Thread sys Admin
What happens if you change your resolv.conf to google's dns ? On 4/15/10, Nataraj wrote: > listserv.traf...@sloop.net wrote: >>> Check out the following bug report. I would also look at other bind bug >>> reports. My sense is that redhat has deviated quite a bite from the ISC >>> version of bind

Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

2010-04-15 Thread Nataraj
listserv.traf...@sloop.net wrote: >> Check out the following bug report. I would also look at other bind bug >> reports. My sense is that redhat has deviated quite a bite from the ISC >> version of bind. In particular I believe that they disabled or otherwise >> modified the caching behavior back a

Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

2010-04-15 Thread listserv . traffic
>> > Check out the following bug report. I would also look at other bind bug > reports. My sense is that redhat has deviated quite a bite from the ISC > version of bind. In particular I believe that they disabled or otherwise > modified the caching behavior back about 6-8 months ago when there were

Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

2010-04-15 Thread listserv . traffic
> On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 17:36 -0700, listserv.traf...@sloop.net wrote: >> -- >> Problem: >> Postfix is doing RBL lookups on zen.spamhaus.org. >> Everything goes along groovy - but then lookups start failing. >> > Does your network interface show any abnormalities - dropped packets > etc? I assume

Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

2010-04-15 Thread John Horne
On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 17:36 -0700, listserv.traf...@sloop.net wrote: > -- > Problem: > Postfix is doing RBL lookups on zen.spamhaus.org. > Everything goes along groovy - but then lookups start failing. > Does your network interface show any abnormalities - dropped packets etc? I assume you have no

Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

2010-04-14 Thread Nataraj
listserv.traf...@sloop.net wrote: > My apologies if I'm posting the wrong place, or am asking a common > question. All my looking so far hasn't turned up anything very useful > in knowing what to look at, or what to modify. > > --- > CentOS 5, running BIND 9.3.6 > i386 > > Hardware: > P4, 2.8Ghz, 1

Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

2010-04-14 Thread Larry Vaden
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 7:36 PM, wrote: > First, someone's going to ask - perhaps Zen's blocking you. I don't > think so. Here's why. > -We're non-commercial, using the definition set my spamhaus, > -mail connects TOTAL are well less than 100K a day. (Less than 10K in > actuality) > -and thus ha

[CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

2010-04-14 Thread listserv . traffic
My apologies if I'm posting the wrong place, or am asking a common question. All my looking so far hasn't turned up anything very useful in knowing what to look at, or what to modify. --- CentOS 5, running BIND 9.3.6 i386 Hardware: P4, 2.8Ghz, 1G memory Sata drives - non mirrored etc. Load is li