Quoting Rick Macdougall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Greg Skouby wrote: > > With SA-3.2.0 I seem to be getting sub 5 second scan times pretty > > regularly but when I upgraded to SA-3.2.3 I was lucky to get sub 10 > > second. I flipped on debugging and see a bunch of these messages: > > > > Thu Aug 16 15:22:53 2007 [9050] dbg: dns: timeout for whois, > > __RCVD_IN_WHOIS, DNSBL-A, > > dns:A:21.97.71.64.combined-HIB.dnsiplists.completewhois.com. after 7 > > seconds > > > > > > (sorry for the nasty line wrap) > > > > The DNS lookup seemed to be timing out quicker in 3.2.0 for whatever > > reason and I wasn't noticing the delay for that release. > > Does anybody know the status of completewhois? People on spam-l have > > been commenting on how unreliable they have become and I was just > > wondering if other people were seeing the same thing and if I/we should > > just take this rule out for the time being. I like what completewhois > > does but probably not at the expense of delayed scan times. > > > > > > I'm seeing the same thing although it isn't as bad today for some > reason. I couldn't even load their website until last night. > > I'm currently considering using a curl -R -s -z type of script to > download their bogons-cidr-all.txt et al and run a local rbldnsd mirror > of their data. > > Rick >
A couple obvious possiblities: 1. Servers are overutilized 2. Being ddossed Jeff C.
