[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

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 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
> 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

[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