Re: SA 3.01 eventually stops noticing DNSBLs

[Jay Levitt]

Jeff Chan wrote: On Friday, February 18, 2005, 8:35:35 PM, Jay Levitt wrote: I have SA 3.01 running under mimedefang 2.43 with sendmail 8.13.1. At some point, SA seems to stop doing lookups on the DNSBLs; spam gets through that is listed in multiple BLs; if I check manually with spamassassin -t, it detects the BL entry, even if I run it moments after the spam was received. One thing to check is whether your name resolution is truly correct. Are you running Net::DNS 0.48? I was running 0.47; just upgraded to 0.48.  Was there some known bug in 0.47 that could cause this?  The Changes for 0.48 don't mention anything that looks relevant. Is it installed and upgraded in a consistent way (i.e. always rpms or always CPAN or always tarballs)? Using different upgrade methods can confuse things. Always CPAN. Did you see the recent thread about the various resolve.conf's used by Net::DNS? Are they all correct for the user SpamAssassin runs as? Just checked.. there is only one resolv.conf on the system, in /etc/resolv.conf, and it correctly points to my own machine, which runs a caching named (actually caching for the world, authoritative for my own domain). It's important to note that the DNS lookups DO work for a while after starting mimedefang; it's just at some point after days/weeks that it stops trying (or stops succeeding).  Any tips as to where I could put debugging code?  Should SA already be writing something to a log file? Jeff C.