R:Re: R: Spamassassin Timeout issue.

Wed Sep 10 16:40:17 IST 2008

No it's non windows based, It's bind running on centos 4.x.
I would like to know if someone could explain me if my dns configuration
it's correct.

Thanks again

Dr. Marcello Anderlini
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Da: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
[mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] Per conto di Alex Neuman
van der Hans
Inviato: mercoledì 10 settembre 2008 17.18
A: MailScanner discussion
Oggetto: [spam] Re: R: Spamassassin Timeout issue.

Install a caching nameserver on your box and male sure it has access to the
outside world. You may also want to use opendns as your forwarders since
they can be faster than some ISP DNS servers.

Your internal DNS - I'm guessing here... - is probably windows based.  
In my experience this is usually not good.

Sent from my iPhone

On Sep 10, 2008, at 9:59 AM, "Marcello Anderlini" <m.anderlini at database.it
> wrote:

> I beg your pardon but I have the same problem and I looking for a 
> solution since many month.
>
> On my system is installed a dns server resolving also our domain.
>
> Very often during the day, unexpectedly without change nothing 
> spamassassin starts to run very slowly.
> I have followed all the tips founded but without success. Could be a 
> dns problem ?
> This is my extract from my dns configuration. Is it enough to set it 
> also as a cache dns ?
>
> Thanks and sorry for my worst english.
>
>
>
>
> ======================
> options {
> # file di boot per named
>        directory "/var/named";
>        forwarders { 83.216.172.1;83.216.172.2;213.234.128.211; };
>        query-source address * port 53; };
>
> logging {
>  channel local_log {
>   /*
>    * Use a file channnel. The file is
>    * /var/log/named.log. [Why the ".log"
>    * suffix?] Keep 2 versions of the file
>    * and don't let it get bigger than 1 Mb.
>    */
> #   file "/var/log/named.log"
>   file "/var/log/named/named.log"
>   versions 2 size 1M;
>   print-time yes;
>  };
>  category default {
>   /*
>    * Send every log category to the
>    * local_log channel defined above.
>    */
>   local_log;
>  };
> };
> ======================
>
>
> Dr. Marcello Anderlini
> m.anderlini at database.it
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> Da: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] Per conto di Alex 
> Neuman van der Hans
> Inviato: mercoledì 10 settembre 2008 16.22
> A: MailScanner discussion
> Cc: MailScanner discussion
> Oggetto: Re: Spamassassin Timeout issue.
>
>
> When spamassassin times out, it usually is because of a DNS issue.
> Restarting works in your case probably because people trying to 
> connect to your server "back off" when you restart it because to them 
> it looks like your server died. They take pity and don't bother it for 
> a while.
> When they
> see it back online, the load and backlog rises.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Sep 10, 2008, at 9:05 AM, "Swati Meghanand" 
> <swati.meghanand at gmail.com
> >
> wrote:
>
>
>
>    hi,
>
>    I am not running any name server on the same machine, actually I am 
> having a fail-over cluster of 3 machine having same configuration/ 
> setting I facing this prob in 2 machines the another thts 3rd is 
> running smoothly...
>
>
>    When I restart machine it works well for atleast 12-15 Hrs.(But
> restarting Mailscanner didn't helped me)
>
>    Did u mean this could be a DNS related issue....
>
>    Regards,
>
>    Swati Meghanand
>
>
>    2008/9/10 Alex Neuman van der Hans < <mailto:alex at rtpty.com>
> alex at rtpty.com>
>
>
>        It's actually quite clearly indicating the opposite. You are
> not reading the logs right. If spamassassin is timing out, you need  
> to take
> care of that. What caching nameserver are you running on that box?
>
>        Sent from my iPhone
>
>
>        On Sep 10, 2008, at 3:54 AM, "Swati Meghanand" <
> <mailto:swati.meghanand at gmail.com> swati.meghanand at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>            Hi,
>
>            I'm using mailscanner on a busy mail gateways from
> serveral months, which was working fine so far.From last few days I  
> noticed
> incresed no of spam mails as well log Filtering queues (ofcourse slow
> processing of mailscanner).In log file of mailscanner I found  
> following
> lines,
>
>            Sep 10 04:47:29 localhost MailScanner[11027]: Virus
> and Content Scanning: Starting
>            Sep 10 04:47:37 localhost MailScanner[8400]:
> SpamAssassin timed out and was killed, failure 8 of 20
>            Sep 10 04:47:37 localhost MailScanner[8680]:
> SpamAssassin timed out and was killed, failure 14 of 20
>            Sep 10 04:47:38 localhost MailScanner[8680]: Message
> 1KdL6x-0005q5-L3 from xx.xx.xx.xx (xxx at xxx.x) to xxx.xx is not spam,
> SpamAssassin (not cached, timed out)
>            Sep 10 04:47:38 localhost MailScanner[8400]: Message
> 1KdLDG-0006se-Ox from xx.xx.xx.xx (xxx at xx.xxx) to xxx.xx is not spam,
> SpamAssassin (not cached, timed out)
>
>            it clealy indicates mailscanner is not (able to)
> scanning messages.
>
>            Any idea about this issue.
>
>            Thanks in advance :-)
>
>            Regards
>
>            Swati Meghanand
>
>
>
>
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