I caught wind from a post on ddos-protection.org that Spamhaus is getting DDoS attacked again. We are getting timeouts to spamhaus servers intermittently. One test scan will work properly with no timeouts, the next will say "deadline shrunk", then "the calling callback/abort on key" and spam will flow through. It looks like the timeouts are somewhere around 7-8 seconds that cause it fail. Can I tell spamassassin to wait until it gets a response or change that timeout to be a lot higher?
Note: This happens on all of our relays that are spread across the country. All different ISPs, etc. Here is an email test [ root@server ~ ] # su defang -s /bin/bash -c 'spamassassin -x -p /etc/mail/ sa-mimedefang.cf -D' < message5.eml ... ... <removed content> ... ... Sep 19 11:39:31.298 [32293] dbg: async: aborting after 9.038 s, deadline shrunk: URIBL_SBL_A, URI-DNSBL, DNSBL:75.15.168.192:sbl.spamhaus.org Sep 19 11:39:31.298 [32293] dbg: async: aborting after 8.937 s, deadline shrunk: URIBL_SBL_A, URI-DNSBL, DNSBL:1.194.124.98:sbl.spamhaus.org Sep 19 11:39:31.298 [32293] dbg: async: aborting after 8.951 s, deadline shrunk: URIBL_SBL_A, URI-DNSBL, DNSBL:2.124.80.208:sbl.spamhaus.org Sep 19 11:39:31.299 [32293] dbg: async: aborting after 8.965 s, deadline shrunk: URIBL_SBL_A, URI-DNSBL, DNSBL:2.127.80.208:sbl.spamhaus.org Sep 19 11:39:31.299 [32293] dbg: async: aborting after 8.933 s, deadline shrunk: URIBL_SBL_A, URI-DNSBL, DNSBL:1.196.124.98:sbl.spamhaus.org Sep 19 11:39:31.299 [32293] dbg: async: aborting after 9.076 s, deadline shrunk: URIBL_SBL_A, URI-DNSBL, DNSBL:76.25.168.192:sbl.spamhaus.org Sep 19 11:39:31.299 [32293] dbg: async: aborting after 8.921 s, deadline shrunk: URIBL_SBL_A, URI-DNSBL, DNSBL:1.193.124.98:sbl.spamhaus.org Sep 19 11:39:31.299 [32293] dbg: async: aborting after 8.927 s, deadline shrunk: URIBL_SBL_A, URI-DNSBL, DNSBL:1.197.124.98:sbl.spamhaus.org Sep 19 11:39:31.300 [32293] dbg: async: aborting after 9.081 s, deadline shrunk: URIBL_SBL_A, URI-DNSBL, DNSBL:71.13.127.74:sbl.spamhaus.org ... ... <removed content> ... ... Sep 19 11:39:31.329 [32293] dbg: async: calling callback/abort on key A/ 2.148.94.208.sbl.spamhaus.org, rule URIBL_SBL_A Sep 19 11:39:31.329 [32293] dbg: uridnsbl: complete_dnsbl_lookup aborted URIBL_SBL_A DNSBL:2.148.94.208:sbl.spamhaus.org Sep 19 11:39:31.329 [32293] dbg: async: calling callback/abort on key A/ 1.197.124.98.sbl.spamhaus.org, rule URIBL_SBL_A Sep 19 11:39:31.330 [32293] dbg: uridnsbl: complete_dnsbl_lookup aborted URIBL_SBL_A DNSBL:1.197.124.98:sbl.spamhaus.org Sep 19 11:39:31.330 [32293] dbg: async: calling callback/abort on key A/ 75.15.168.192.sbl.spamhaus.org, rule URIBL_SBL_A Sep 19 11:39:31.330 [32293] dbg: uridnsbl: complete_dnsbl_lookup aborted URIBL_SBL_A DNSBL:75.15.168.192:sbl.spamhaus.org Sep 19 11:39:31.330 [32293] dbg: async: calling callback/abort on key A/ 2.127.80.208.sbl.spamhaus.org, rule URIBL_SBL_A Sep 19 11:39:31.330 [32293] dbg: uridnsbl: complete_dnsbl_lookup aborted URIBL_SBL_A DNSBL:2.127.80.208:sbl.spamhaus.org Sep 19 11:39:31.330 [32293] dbg: async: calling callback/abort on key A/ 71.13.127.74.sbl.spamhaus.org, rule URIBL_SBL_A Sep 19 11:39:31.331 [32293] dbg: uridnsbl: complete_dnsbl_lookup aborted URIBL_SBL_A DNSBL:71.13.127.74:sbl.spamhaus.org ... ... <removed content> ... ... Sep 19 11:39:31.338 [32293] dbg: async: timing: 8.921 X DNSBL:1.193.124.98:s bl.spamhaus.org Sep 19 11:39:31.339 [32293] dbg: async: timing: 8.927 X DNSBL:1.197.124.98:s bl.spamhaus.org Sep 19 11:39:31.339 [32293] dbg: async: timing: 8.933 X DNSBL:1.196.124.98:s bl.spamhaus.org Sep 19 11:39:31.339 [32293] dbg: async: timing: 8.937 X DNSBL:1.194.124.98:s bl.spamhaus.org Sep 19 11:39:31.339 [32293] dbg: async: timing: 8.942 X DNSBL:1.192.124.98:s bl.spamhaus.org Sep 19 11:39:31.339 [32293] dbg: async: timing: 8.947 X DNSBL:2.126.80.208:s bl.spamhaus.org Sep 19 11:39:31.339 [32293] dbg: async: timing: 8.951 X DNSBL:2.124.80.208:s bl.spamhaus.org Sep 19 11:39:31.340 [32293] dbg: async: timing: 8.956 X DNSBL:2.125.80.208:s bl.spamhaus.org Sep 19 11:39:31.340 [32293] dbg: async: timing: 8.961 X DNSBL:2.148.94.208:s bl.spamhaus.org Sep 19 11:39:31.340 [32293] dbg: async: timing: 8.965 X DNSBL:2.127.80.208:s bl.spamhaus.org Sep 19 11:39:31.340 [32293] dbg: async: timing: 8.978 X DNSBL:163.68.246.50: sbl.spamhaus.org Sep 19 11:39:31.340 [32293] dbg: async: timing: 9.038 X DNSBL:75.15.168.192: sbl.spamhaus.org Sep 19 11:39:31.340 [32293] dbg: async: timing: 9.043 X DNSBL:74.91.172.66:s bl.spamhaus.org Sep 19 11:39:31.340 [32293] dbg: async: timing: 9.076 X DNSBL:76.25.168.192: sbl.spamhaus.org Sep 19 11:39:31.341 [32293] dbg: async: timing: 9.081 X DNSBL:71.13.127.74:s bl.spamhaus.org Sep 19 11:39:31.341 [32293] dbg: async: timing: 9.178 X DNSBL:syrupbeneath.com:dbl.spamhaus.org Sep 19 11:39:31.341 [32293] dbg: async: timing: 9.221 X DNSBL:sagedining.com:dbl.spamhaus.org ... ... <removed content> ... ...