In this case, spamdyke would perform 1 additional DNS query (to find the
reverse DNS name).

-- Sam Clippinger

> On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 07:34:43PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> As clever as the automatic RBL system is, I would recommend against it
>> until you can figure out why this is happening.  If this is due to
>> backscatter, you could end up blacklisting (otherwise) legitimate mail
>> servers.  Also, with the kind of load you're getting, I don't think
>> adding
>> rblsmtpd would be an improvement -- adding DNS lookups would just
>> increase
>> the time needed to accept an incoming connection.
>
> In this case, rblsmtpd would only do one lookup, on a local DNS server.
>
> It's not self-evident, at least to me, which of these two is faster:
>
> 1. start rblsmtpd and have it perform a local DNS lookup. If NXDOMAIN,
> start
> spamdyke as normal.
>
> 2. start spamdyke, which does a number of remote DNS lookups regardless of
> whether the sender or the recipient are blacklisted (doesn't it?).
>
> Of course, adding the IPs to spamdyke's ip blacklist is also an option,
> but
> with 70k addresses, I'm guessing lookups will take spamdyke longer than
> rbldns, which uses a cdb.
>
> Andras
>
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