[antispam-f] Re: DNS Lookup / Weight filter

  • From: Frank de Bruijn <antispam@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: antispam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:08:51 +0200

On 13 Jan, Robin Hampshire <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Since a week or so before Xmas I have been having great trouble with
> the DNS lookup filter. Virtually every occasion I try to use it with a
> command of

> Delete Weight > 14

> the initial connection to the POP3 mailbox becomes very slow, each DNS
> lookup takes between 10/15 seconds and within a few attempts I have to
> "*rmkill nsq" and start again.

Is this still happening these days?

> Is anyone else getting the same problems, and is there any tweaking that
> can be done at this end to help?

Looks like a nameserver malfunction. Not a lot you can do about that,
except maybe (temporarily?) use another nameserver like OpenDNS (see
http://www.opendns.com/ ).

Regards,
Frank

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