Neverending timeouts

[mikea]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 01:43:21PM -0400, Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> Hi,
>
>         I've set the timeout for RBL in MS at 20 and the max timeouts at 7.  However, I'm having a non-growing number of timeouts, according to my logs.
>
> RBL Check Infinite-Monkeys timed out and was killed, consecutive failure 1 of 7
> ...
> RBL Check Infinite-Monkeys timed out and was killed, consecutive failure 1 of 7
> ...
> RBL Check Infinite-Monkeys timed out and was killed, consecutive failure 1 of 7
> ...
> RBL Check Infinite-Monkeys timed out and was killed, consecutive failure 1 of 7
>
> Anyone has an explanation for this?

As long as you don't see "2 of 7", "3 of 7", and so on, it's just an
annoyance; you might want to adjust the timeout value.

Infinite-Monkeys may be a bit loaded down, or the network running
slow between your box and his, or something.

--
Mike Andrews
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin since 1964