----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Chan" jeffc@surbl.org To: "Matt Egan (hotmail)" mattegan_public@hotmail.com Cc: "SURBL Discussion list" discuss@lists.surbl.org Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 10:38 PM Subject: Re: [SURBL-Discuss] quick poll on SURBL hit %
On Wednesday, January 5, 2005, 4:36:02 PM, Matt (hotmail) wrote:
Also note that for about 3 days I was having massive timeouts trying to resolve names in the multi.surbl.org zone. I
have
since setup a local copy of that zone.
None of our name servers are having problems and certainly not for three days. Did you perhaps have an error in your DNS configuration?
Jeff C.
"If it appears in hams, then don't list it."
It could have been a smaller time period (it was last week sometime), I didn't notice it till I started getting complaints about spam. when I dug into it everything looked like it should have been caught but the uribl rules weren't firing in SA. manual dig's showed 10+ second delays (I asked several NS's directly) and spamassassin was giving up after 2 seconds (or whatever the default is I forget). I upped the timeout in SA to 10 seconds at the sacrifice of mail throughput and the rules started firing again. the server has bind running locally and I wasn't having problems resolving anything else. I chalked it up to spammers DDossing the surbl.org zones because it was such an effective measure. decided it was too valuable to not have and opted to run the zone's locally. before I got the rsync approval things seemed to have settled down and my query times were back to normal but I had already setup rbldnsd so I opted to run the zones anyway along with some standard rbl zones that I use.
-Matt