> I'm still seeing the same error happen even after making that change in > /etc/hosts. > > If what you're saying above is true, then why am I am I only seeing > these errors when there's a spike of incoming email. I'm graphing the > number of mails coming in and every time I see these errors there's a > large spike of incoming mail coming on the machine. Also, why would > this cause spamd to seem to lose track of messages and have them not > get tagged? > > I checked the load balancer monitor check for spamassassin and we're > doing the SPAMC PING test on it. The interval is set at 5 seconds and > the timeout is set at 16 seconds. I don't recall seeing these errors > before the upgrade. > > Anyways, still puzzled. The two machines that have the newer perl > version seem to not show this error. I saw it happen a few times on one > of the machines, but not as many as the others.
Hmm. Maybe it is indeed a result of the additional local loopback address required for the IP load-balancers. I'm asking around various places if that's a supported situation.
