Wow -- 730K daily connections is a pretty busy server.  What do your 
load and CPU utilization numbers look like?  Does syslog log to files on 
the local machine or are you using a network syslog server?  Most 
importantly, are you seeing any other missing messages or is this issue 
specific to spamdyke?

-- Sam Clippinger

Seb wrote:
>>      What version of spamdyke are you using?  Older versions didn't log 
>> every message, especially if the connection was whitelisted.  Newer 
>> versions should log everything.
> 
> 3.1.1 installed this morning in place of 3.1.0
> 
>>      Also, how busy is your server?  syslogd will drop messages if the 
>> server is overloaded; I believe this is why DJB didn't use it for qmail.
> 
> This server is a lot cooler since spamdyke was installed :-) Thanks a
> lot for spamdyke, sam, it works perfectly on 6+ servers (and counting)
> and stops loads of spam : 710000 smtp connections refused on about 730000
> incoming connections on the biggest server (a day), not bad at all :-)
> 
>> With the latest version of spamdyke, you can use the "log-target" 
>> directive to make spamdyke avoid syslog.  Its messages will appear in 
>> the same files as your qmail logs.  I'd be very interested to know if 
>> that solves the problem.
> 
> ouch. This would break my munin plugin and a couple of scripts I use
> to extract statistics. I'll try to modify them to handle multilog
> log files and tai timestamps one of these days
> 
> --
> Sébastien Guilbaud
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