Well, would you look at that. Aren't I stupid? Turns out that I was using our router as a DNS server (which is what I typically do - it's the DHCP server, etc.). That seems to work fine in all other circumstances, but I wonder if it was mangling the TXT record or something. If I understand DNS correctly, these TXT records that sa-update relies on are kind of an odd duck that don't get used too often, which is why I wouldn't have ever noticed this before. Thanks, I think this will get me going!
One more question related to sa-update though -- when the updates came through, it put them in /var/lib/spamassassin/3.002000, whereas the RPM I installed seems to put the default .cf files in /usr/share/spamassassin, and my rulesdujour script has always put custom rulesets in /etc/mail/spamassassin, where my local.cf and v320.pre and all those files are. Are these the correct paths, or is this all supposed to be consolidated under a single path? Will spamassassin see all these rules and their updates? How do I know which rules are actually seen by spamassassin and which ones it might not know are there? -BJ Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: > > bjquinn wrote: >> Hi, I'm trying to get sa-update working with the default channel. It >> seems >> that no matter what I try I always get something like the following if I >> do >> a debug output on sa-update >> >> [30900] dbg: dns: query failed: 8.1.3.updates.spamassassin.org => >> NXDOMAIN >> >> This applies to SA version 3.1.8 and 3.2.0 for both the default channel >> and >> the saupdates.openprotect.com channel. I can't seem to find anything >> helpful on Google except for people who are running 3.1.0 (too old, >> doesn't >> work) or in certain other cases where a particular version hadn't had any >> updates posted for it. >> >> Any suggestions? > > Make sure that the first DNS server listed in /etc/resolv.conf isn't > somehow screwed up. > > Daryl > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/problems-with-sa-update-returning-NXDOMAIN-tf3836962.html#a10877331 Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
