Re: [SAtalk] DNS Timeout Issues

2003-08-30 Thread David Birnbaum
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Simon Byrnand wrote: > Generally the situation for us anyway is that we have fast DNS available > but individual blacklists may stop replying as osirusoft did... its not > common for the response time of all lists to be slow at once, so it looks > like the above scheme may wor

Re: [SAtalk] DNS Timeout Issues

2003-08-29 Thread Justin Mason
Simon Byrnand writes: >Although I don't have the answer to your question, I suggest you look at >using the following options to reduce the various timeouts to minimize the >chance of a "train wreck" due to things outside your control :) > >rbl_timeout >razor_timeout >dcc_timeout >pyzor_timeout >

Re: [SAtalk] DNS Timeout Issues

2003-08-29 Thread Daniel Quinlan
David Birnbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That sounds good, but will the debug switch show you which test is > timing out so you CAN disable it quickly? I found it pretty hard to > figure out which test was failing. Yep. -- Daniel Quinlan anti-spam (SpamAssassin), Linux,

Re: [SAtalk] DNS Timeout Issues

2003-08-29 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Simon Byrnand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I presume though that I'd still be wise to keep the timeouts for razor, > dcc, and pyzor ? And speaking of that, do they run in parallel with each > other and/or other network tests, or one at a time ? One at a bloody slow time. SpamAssassin would be m

Re: [SAtalk] DNS Timeout Issues

2003-08-29 Thread Simon Byrnand
> Simon Byrnand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> So umm, how does the rbl_timeout setting work in 2.60 then ? I didn't >> quite >> follow the logic of what you said :) I would have previously assumed >> that >> it was just a cutoff where if an individual test took longer than that >> it >> was abor

Re: [SAtalk] DNS Timeout Issues

2003-08-29 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Simon Byrnand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So umm, how does the rbl_timeout setting work in 2.60 then ? I didn't quite > follow the logic of what you said :) I would have previously assumed that > it was just a cutoff where if an individual test took longer than that it > was aborted but i

Re: [SAtalk] DNS Timeout Issues

2003-08-29 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 22:38 28/08/2003 -0700, Daniel Quinlan wrote: Simon Byrnand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Although I don't have the answer to your question, I suggest you look at > using the following options to reduce the various timeouts to minimize the > chance of a "train wreck" due to things outside your

Re: [SAtalk] DNS Timeout Issues

2003-08-29 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Simon Byrnand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Although I don't have the answer to your question, I suggest you look at > using the following options to reduce the various timeouts to minimize the > chance of a "train wreck" due to things outside your control :) > > rbl_timeout > razor_timeout > d

Re: [SAtalk] DNS Timeout Issues

2003-08-29 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 21:23 27/08/2003 -0400, David Birnbaum wrote: Folks, With respect to the OSIRU DNS problems recently, we had the situation where SpamAssassin suddenly went from taking one second to process a message to 30 seconds or more. Mail suddenly started backing up, and we ended up with a real train wre

Re: [SAtalk] DNS Timeout Issues

2003-08-28 Thread Justin Mason
David Birnbaum writes: >With respect to the OSIRU DNS problems recently, we had the situation >where SpamAssassin suddenly went from taking one second to process a >message to 30 seconds or more. Mail suddenly started backing up, and we >ended up with a real train wreck - mail volume was much hig

[SAtalk] DNS Timeout Issues

2003-08-28 Thread David Birnbaum
Folks, With respect to the OSIRU DNS problems recently, we had the situation where SpamAssassin suddenly went from taking one second to process a message to 30 seconds or more. Mail suddenly started backing up, and we ended up with a real train wreck - mail volume was much higher than usual due t