R: Spamassassin Timeout issue.

Chris Sweeney csweeney at osubucks.org
Wed Sep 10 18:41:39 IST 2008


> Personally, I don't think it is a significant difference either way.
> If, however, you're running an older version of bind or other DNS server
> that doesn't do random ports, and you don't have the luxury of upgrading
> in the immediate future, using opendns as a forwarder will add a layer
> of protection...
>
It's going to depend on your network path to OpenDNS also.  I personally
have never found it faster to go off network (OpenDNS) then do lookups
myself.  Especially on a mail server since alot of your SPAM comes in
batches the lookups to the same domain are going to much significanly
faster in that respect.

I've tried OpenDNS quite a few times and although its good and it is fast
it has never beat going local in my test enough to increase my traffic
going out/in from the internet.


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