RE: [Declude.JunkMail] 100 Point scale / DNS

[David]

David,             Here is the DNS workaround for win2003 servers.  Basically win2003 increased the packet size to larger than 512k when performing a DNS query.  This is a default setting in win2003.  The problem is many firewalls still don’t allow packets larger than 512k.  Here is a link to a workaround from Microsoft: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;832223.  We have used this very successfully.   David   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 5:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] 100 Point scale / DNS   David, There is a problem with Win2003 DNS and some firewalls due to packet size or something like that.  I forget exactly what the issue is, but there is a modification that should be made to your system if in fact you are getting a lot of time-outs.  Hopefully one of those affected will chime in and explain what the issue is and how to fix it.  You might also want to visit mail-archive.com and search the IMail archives for "DNS Windows 2003". Declude uses the DNS server specified in IMail.  You should only list one in there, and the DNS server should either be installed on the same box or on the same network. Your question about weights is very subjective.  Each system is different and you will likely find your own unique mix of weights to make this work.  I would start by adjusting by even multiples, and then tweak things one or a few at a time to see what works.  This will take time.  Note that the only functional reason for upping the scoring is so that you can achieve better granularity with scoring, effectively giving you the precision to score things in tenths of a point with a fail weight of 100 instead of full points on a fail weight of 10. Matt Kornitz, David wrote: First Question:   I know this issue has been discussed in the past, but I would like to make sure I understand the discussions:   We are contemplating revising the scoring to a 100 point scale I assume that when the conversion is made that initially you select the value for 100 point and then proportionally adjust the scores up.   Questions:  What weight did you use for the 100 points? Was it the delete weight? Or the hold weight?  or something in between the values?       Second Question:               I am receiving a lot of DNS timeout values, yet when I go the run the IP address through NSLookup, it returns the address immediately.  The primary address on the server is a Windows 2003 DNS server, secondary addresses are linux DNS servers.   What DNS servers is Declude using when doing a DNS lookup?  As I recall, there was a way to specify these values in the global.cfg but I was not able to locate any information on this.   Anyone have any recommendations or insight into the problem?   Thanks for you help in advance,   David -- ===================================================== MailPure custom filters for Declude JunkMail Pro. http://www.mailpure.com/software/ =====================================================