SA users that implement DCC need this info... [Forwarded from the DCC mailing list.]
- Mark Rice > ---------- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 1:01 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: DCC digest, Vol 1 #389 - 1 msg > > > > According to reports from other people, the SpamAssassin documentation > does mention using `cdcc info` to see if the DCC client is working, > but doesn't say why it matters or what you're supposed to look for. > > It would be swell if someone with access to SpamAssassin mailing lists > or something could encourage that documentation to say that `cdcc info` > should find at least one preferablly more than half a dozen of the > public DCC servers. If it doesn't, a likely cause is an interfering > firewall. A common firewall configuration passes outgoing DCC/UDP/IP > requests to distant port 6277 but rejects responses. That combined > with the DCC client code's retransmission mechanisms can multiply the > outgoing requests by more than 50 times. (Never mind that large > multiplication applies only to dccproc and that recent versions of > dccproc should throttle the flood to a dozen or two every few minutes.) > > > Vernon Schryver [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 Open Source Projects. See the people who have HELPED US provide better services: Click here: http://sourceforge.net/supporters.php _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
