On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Newsmirror wrote:
> > > > > > > With this info, over time one would be able to finetune and optimize the > > > number of lists used and lookup order, dropping lists rarely scoring/used etc. > > > > once you know the IP and you know that it has been rejected, getting the > > list is trivial. > > > > Well, me from an adminstrators view that logic isn't very efficient. I monitor logs > concistiently to adapt applications for best performance or adjust malconfigurations. > > In the XMail case I have some 50% of all connections rejected by maps, and knowing >that > XMail for each connection does a DNS query for each map until a match says me that > this will come down on performance more or less. Especially if the the map >responsible for > most blocks is put last in a line of five, and maybe the three first ones don't >catch anything. > Besides that grepping and looking up all rejected IPs from the smtp-log in these >five map-databases > manually (or even automated) and from the result build some sort of statistics is >something > I wouldn't even assign to my worst enemy. > > My suggestion adding the actual map responsible for a block, would easen up a >decision > of what maps to use and in what order to break optimum simple by quickly browsing >thru > 1-2 days of logs. If I find map E (the 5th and last map) was responsible for 99% of >the blocks > and the three first ones (A, B, C) does 0%, the I know my CustMapsList is very >poorly setup. Now I > simply had to drop maps A,B and C and set the 99% scorer, E frontmost to gain an >optimized > CustMapsList directive for the time being. > > Of course, I could have come to this decision by following your suggestion aswell, >but it would require > X hours of extra work, those extra hours which one rarely have lying around. From my >point > of view, I figure this would add up some 1 line additional code on your behalf, >while it would save us > XMail users (atleast me ;) ) a bundle + slightly better map-based performance >eventually. are you telling me that you're spending your time looking logs and adjusting maps order ? come on, this is a process that a picky admin would do once a week at most. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
