Re: Interesting RBL problem

Jeff Chan wrote: >On Thursday, April 21, 2005, 5:12:37 AM, Mike Grice wrote: > > >>why would SA >>time it out? The system should use the hostfile in preference to DNS >>(e.g., in nsswitch.conf), but for some bizarre reason this lookup isn't. >> >> > >BIND does the forwarding to rbldnsd. > >

Re: Interesting RBL problem

On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 10:19 -0500, Stuart Johnston wrote: > Mike Grice wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 04:37 -0700, Jeff Chan wrote: > > > > This I know (I'm a sysadmin ;-)), what I'm getting at is why would SA > > time it out? The system should use the hostfile in preference to DNS > > (e.g., i

Re: Interesting RBL problem

Mike Grice wrote: On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 04:37 -0700, Jeff Chan wrote: This I know (I'm a sysadmin ;-)), what I'm getting at is why would SA time it out? The system should use the hostfile in preference to DNS (e.g., in nsswitch.conf), but for some bizarre reason this lookup isn't. SA uses Net::DNS

Re: Interesting RBL problem

On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 05:16 -0700, Jeff Chan wrote: > On Thursday, April 21, 2005, 5:12:37 AM, Mike Grice wrote: > > why would SA > > time it out? The system should use the hostfile in preference to DNS > > (e.g., in nsswitch.conf), but for some bizarre reason this lookup isn't. > > BIND does the

Re: Interesting RBL problem

On Thursday, April 21, 2005, 5:12:37 AM, Mike Grice wrote: > why would SA > time it out? The system should use the hostfile in preference to DNS > (e.g., in nsswitch.conf), but for some bizarre reason this lookup isn't. BIND does the forwarding to rbldnsd. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PRO

Re: Interesting RBL problem

On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 04:37 -0700, Jeff Chan wrote: > On Thursday, April 21, 2005, 4:26:46 AM, Mike Grice wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 03:55 -0700, Jeff Chan wrote: > >> On Thursday, April 21, 2005, 3:46:35 AM, Mike Grice wrote: > > >> >>From /etc/hosts: > >> > 127.0.0.2 dnsbl-so

Re: Interesting RBL problem

On Thursday, April 21, 2005, 4:26:46 AM, Mike Grice wrote: > On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 03:55 -0700, Jeff Chan wrote: >> On Thursday, April 21, 2005, 3:46:35 AM, Mike Grice wrote: >> >>From /etc/hosts: >> > 127.0.0.2 dnsbl-sorbs-net.dnsbl.plus.net >> >> Use named.conf instead of /etc/hos

Re: Interesting RBL problem

On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 03:55 -0700, Jeff Chan wrote: > On Thursday, April 21, 2005, 3:46:35 AM, Mike Grice wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 03:01 -0700, Jeff Chan wrote: > > >> Did you remember to forward the queries for your local zones to > >> the rbldnsd server? E.g.: > > > Yeah. All the othe

Re: Interesting RBL problem

On Thursday, April 21, 2005, 3:46:35 AM, Mike Grice wrote: > On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 03:01 -0700, Jeff Chan wrote: >> Did you remember to forward the queries for your local zones to >> the rbldnsd server? E.g.: > Yeah. All the other zones are working, just not SORBS by the looks of > it, which is

Re: Interesting RBL problem

On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 03:01 -0700, Jeff Chan wrote: > On Thursday, April 21, 2005, 2:40:49 AM, Mike Grice wrote: > > I then began to mirror the RBLs that we use (and SURBLS) to speed things > > up, but for some reason I'm now getting an RBL timeout. The way I did > > the RBL mirroring is to run rb

Re: Interesting RBL problem

On Thursday, April 21, 2005, 2:40:49 AM, Mike Grice wrote: > I then began to mirror the RBLs that we use (and SURBLS) to speed things > up, but for some reason I'm now getting an RBL timeout. The way I did > the RBL mirroring is to run rbldnsd locally, with zones (e.g., > dnsbl.sorbs.org), and set

Interesting RBL problem

Hi there, I'm trialling SA for use in our customer spamfiltering. I'm concerned about it's speed (due to the amount of mail we handle), so I ran in debug mode. As I suspected, the greatest delay is when the app has to callout to the net, e.g., RBL lookups and the like. I then began to mirror