R: Spamassassin Timeout issue.

[Charles Lacroix]

I'm about to add this rule into my custome rules set :)


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Alex Neuman van der Hans a écrit :
> Specially since spam *usually* comes in batches from a few discrete 
> sources at a time. Splitting recipients at the mta level helps even 
> further through SA caching.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Sep 10, 2008, at 12:56 PM, "Martin.Hepworth" 
> <martinh at solidstatelogic.com> wrote:
>
>> A quick look at the underlying dns protocol will show u why a local 
>> caching dns  server will speed up queries over even a server <1ms 
>> away, and in practice the results can be dramatic for a system like 
>> SA/MS that is quite dns hungry.
>>
>> -- 
>> martin
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Chris Sweeney <csweeney at osubucks.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 6:45 PM
>> To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>> Subject: RE: R: Spamassassin Timeout issue.
>>
>>> 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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