On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Anyway.. helpful hint: rsync or otherwise mirror your whitelists to a
local nameserver as much as possible, if you handle more than a decent
amount of email. And run a caching nameserver on every mailserver.

The DNS servers in question are local, just another subnet.  A local

Then it is not local -- for the services on the mail server :-)

The jammed up IP stack even was causing problems connecting to the CanIt
database server occasionally.

I do not suppose that the stack is jammed awhole, but the queue of the ethernet card, right? So to use a DNS cache on localhost would definitely help to keep the IP stack OK.

Actually, I saw a benefit in to have a local DNS cache in the past, because our mail server had rejected mails even to itself, because it couldn't verify its own domain via DNS.

Bye,

--
Steffen Kaiser
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