Tony Houghton wrote: > I switch my PC off overnight and I noticed the router would crash > shortly after switching it back on and deduced it was because of the > large volume of mail being fetched in one go. It was OK if I got my > PC to use my ISP's DNS instead.
Strange. Frankly that just seems like buggy firmware in general. :-( > That seems to take about 5 seconds when given a new address, under 1.5s > when repeating one. Something is caching the answer then. Which is good in general. > spamassassin always takes over 10 secs. The debug output I posted > seems to say it is DNS timeouts. There's a whole load of activity to > start with, then it prints several messages which look like it's > waiting for the DNS queries to complete, then a load of messages > saying "dns: timeout", usually after 11 seconds. Maybe this is related to a quirk of perl's Net::DNS module? Theo Van Dinter recently wrote: > Net::DNS, which is what SA uses to call DNS, has been well known to > only use the first [nameserver] entry in resolv.conf, unfortunately. fyi. ?? Maybe... Bob