[antispam-f] Re: DNS problems
- From: Dave Higton <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: antispam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 04:16:26 -0800
On 2013 May 20 Martin Avison wrote:
> For the last day or so whenever AntiSpam (v1.63.1) starts a download it
> gets to 'DNS query' on the first email, and just sits there for a very
> long time. My DNS are 212.159.6.9 & 10 and although I know I could change
> these from the automatic ones, I would rather not. However, I know that
> my ISP (PlusNet) is having some obscure DNS problems at the moment, but
> before I can relate to those problems I need to be able to
>
> (a) discover exactly what the DNS query is that is stalling
> (b) preferably replicate the problem in a Windows environment
>
> An *NSQcache command during the stall says...
>
> ---- host: 2.0.0.127 - block list lookup
> - address: 127.0.0.2
> time: 10:07:44 20-May-2013
> state: OK
> ---- host: 108.9.159.212 - block list lookup
> - address: 212.159.9.108
> time: 09:27:14 20-May-2013
> state: Waiting for answer
>
> and I assume the second one is the problem, Waiting for answer.
>
> I have looked at other NSQ commands, but found nothing useful (to me!)
> apart from *NSQcache z 0 and *NSQcache z 1 which return ok (as long as
> there is nothing waiting for answer).
>
> I can see my emails using TapirMail and Windows Thunderbird, so there is
> nothing wrong with the email DNS or servers as such, it is something to
> do with the anti-spam blocklist lookups which AntiSpam does. And I can
> see no way to turn these off.
>
> Any ideas?
Most of you will have see this message twice. Martin hasn't - nor will
he have seen Frank's response.
Recently, Freelists automatically unsubscribed several list members,
including Martin, on grounds of having sent spam. I'm sure that none
of them did. I reiterate, the Freelists manager (afaik an automated
process) unsubscribed them - I didn't. I didn't see any of the
supposed spam, either.
Just to let y'all know.
Dave
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