Slow completewhois dnsbl?

Glenn Steen glenn.steen at gmail.com
Mon Sep 18 17:05:56 IST 2006


On 18/09/06, Ugo Bellavance <ugob at camo-route.com> wrote:
> Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> > Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> >> I use some completewhois dnsbl on some servers, and one of them had
> >> the incoming mail queue growing today.  I checked, and when I checked
> >> the size of the incoming mail queue, I got many
> >>
> >> (dnsbl map: lookup (194.193.167.63.hijacked.dnsiplists.comple)
> >>
> >> The dnsbl location is hijacked.dnsiplists.completewhois.com'
> >>
> >> Anyone getting this?
> >>
> >
> > Sorry, it was a DNS resolution issue.  Seems to be caused by a bug in
> > bind.  Updated the package with yum and problem is gone.
> >
>
> Well, sorry to reply to myself again,
At this rate, you'll need to be looking at switching to Postfix in the
near future Ugo... Seeing as that is the prime criterion for
distinguishing PF-users....:-)

> but I disabled the list for now as
> it slows my mail processing terribly, on at least 3 servers.  Anyone
> using the same list?
>
Can't help you with this, sorry. Seems like a reasonable action though.

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