On Thu, 29 May 2003, Simon Byrnand wrote:

> At 19:40 28/05/03 -0400, Jack Gostl wrote:
> >On Thu, 29 May 2003, Simon Byrnand wrote:
> >
> > > At 10:40 28/05/03 -0400, Jack Gostl wrote:
> > >
> > > >I just upgraded from 2.53 to 2.55. Was there some discussion awhile back
> > > >about 2.55 having a problem with RBL?
> > >
> > > No,
> > >
> > > It's just that by an extremely annoying co-incidence, one of the RBL lists
> > > used by SA (all recent versions) died only a couple of days after 2.55's
> > > release, causing timeouts for people...
> > >
> > > I certainly havn't noticed any RBL issues with 2.55, other than the above,
> > > and as far as I know nothing was touched in that area of code....
> >
> >I'm surpressing the urge to make a cute remark about "nothing was touched
> >in that area of code". (G) Too many years in this business makes me
> >superstitious.
> 
> :)
> 
> >So... that still leaves the mystery that 2.55 seems slightly less
> >discriminator thay 2.60. Let's let this drop until I have a few thousand
> >spams caught and then I'll pick it up if its warrantted.
> 
> Just thinking - you reduced your rbl_timeout to 5 didn't you ? (Like me) 
> Possibly it is timing out sometimes, so not all messages would be getting 
> RBL checks done if there were DNS delays... maybe bump it up to 10 seconds 
> and see if that has an effect...

I'm already at 10. I might try 15, but I have to be careful. At 30 it
nearly ate the system alive.

I like that idea about the failed RBL flag.

> 
> Pity that SA doesn't add a little note in the headers along the lines of 
> "RBL checks skipped due to timeout" or something similar. Would make 
> debugging this kind of issue much easier....<looks in developers 
> direction>..... :)
> 
> Regards,
> Simon
> 

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Jack Gostl      [EMAIL PROTECTED]



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