hi! On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 07:04:29PM -0400, Daniel Ouellet wrote: > I setup the spamd sync feature between two servers running 4.1 and I > observe the following issues with the setup itself. Some setup based on > the man page do not work for me anyway and some are not always reliable > and some always work. See below. > > Example > Interface facing the Internet: dc0. > server1.test.com 1.1.1.2 > server2.test.com 1.1.1.3 > > ==================== > setup in rc.conf.local that always work. > In server 1: > spamd_flags="-y dc0 -Y 1.1.1.3" > In server 2: > spamd_flags="-y dc0 -Y 1.1.1.2" >
hmm, ok. i will look into this. > > ===================== > Setup that mostly work. Meaning if you reboot, it doesn't always start > spamd and as far as I can tell, that's because the name resolutions do > not work right away when the query is requested, or something like that. > This configuration will not always work and be reliable on reboot of > servers. However based on the man page, it should. if you do it on the > command line it does. Just reboot doesn't always do it. > > In server 1: > spamd_flags="-y dc0 -Y server2.test.com" > In server 2: > spamd_flags="-y dc0 -Y server1.test.com" > > > ====================== > Setup that I never been able to get to work. I see the message that said > the initial communications between the two servers, but never do I see > any sync messages exchanged between the two on the multicast channel. > Only the initial helo message, but never any updates. > > In server 1: > spamd_flags="-y dc0 -Y dc0" > In server 2: > spamd_flags="-y dc0 -Y dc0" > > you have to enable ip multicast on the systems. by default, openbsd rejects any ip multicast traffic by adding a route route -qn add -net 224.0.0.0/4 -interface 127.0.0.1 -reject try to set multicast_host=dc0 in /etc/rc.conf or /etc/rc.conf.local > ======================== > Setup that I never got to work at all. Not even the initial help message > at all. > > In server 1: > spamd_flags="-y server1.test.com -Y server1.test.com -Y server2.test.com" > In server 2: > spamd_flags="-y server2.test.com -Y server1.test.com -Y server2.test.com" > > In theory the man page said that you should be able to do this. > > I get: > spamd: sync init: Device not configured > > I am still puzzle as to why it also should send the updates to itself > here. Meaning -Y server2.test.com when it's configure on server2? It's > the one sending the updates, so it already know what it is sending. > > Anyway, that's what I got. > > Now in the final setup, I do see the sync messages in the first > configuration above, but it's still not clear to me how I can see the > results in the /var/db/spamd file, or may be in the pf table > spamd-white. I try to add some address to see with > > spamdb -a 1.2.3.4 on one side and expected it to be added on the second > server, but never see it in the spamdb. I don't see it in the pf table > spamd-white either. Isn't it suppose to be there some how? Or may be I > need to add something in the pf configuration to log it to the > spamd-white table when the updates are coming in. That might be it, but > the man page say nothing about that. > > Am I forgetting something here. > > All this is with brand new 4.1 install. > did you upgrade it to 4.1-stable? there was a minor fix for spamd-sync after the release. > Thanks > > Daniel
