Jeff Chan wrote on Sat, 11 Sep 2004 03:16:32 -0700: > I would expect DNS timeouts are imposed by the application or > operating system. I don't think anyone would allow these > programs to run indefinitely due to the lack of a timeout > value. >
Jeff, you already answered my question with a similar answer earlier, so I think we are misunderstanding each other. RBL lookups need a time-out value in SA, so that if a time-out occurs, SA stops waiting for an answer to that query f.i. after 5 seconds and processes the message without that rule. If there is no timeout value SA could very well "hang" so long that the calling application, in my case MailScanner, hits its own SA time-out and the message cannot be scored at all. There are RBL time-outs for local.cf, but they don't apply to URIDNSBL since this is a separate module. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com IE-Center: http://ie5.de & http://msie.winware.org
