On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:21:18AM -0700, John Rudd wrote: > > As said elsewhere, the primary issue is how DNS is being set up, both > by the sender and the recipient. But that's outside of the scope of > Botnet. Within Botnet, the actual thing to be solved is moving toward > SA's internal DNS routines, not expending effort on improving its > interaction with Net::DNS. The latter is addressing a surface issue, > not an actual problem.
Gee, I wonder why SA has a rbl_timeout setting then. To address a "surface issue" in Net::DNS (which SA also happens to use)? Maybe it should just leave such trivial things to "setup of sender and recipient". :) We are only trying to point out a simple flaw that I'm not sure you even understand. Lookups should have a sane timeout, in this case the default is bad for the type of work SA does. It's fixable with a simple option. But it's your right to make the "few" people look for silly patches when they have a problem.
