Phil, > What happens if Botnet is patched to use Mail::SpamAssassin::DnsResolver > instead of Net::DNS::Resolver? > I'm musuing about Net::DNS::Resolver's default timeouts and retries... > Phil (probably barking up the wrong tree)
It would do good if Botnet would impose a time limit on its DNS queries. It would also sidestep the Dns.pm problem, but not fix it. If the time spent by Razor+dcc+Botnet+(not sure what else) is longer than rbl_timeout, then replies to RBL queries are thrown away by mistake. Mark