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"Daryl C. W. O'Shea" writes: > On 02/02/2006 10:50 PM, Jason Haar wrote: > > I'm noticing a lot of SPF (and DK) lookups fail on our network (dbg: > > spf: lookup timed out after 5 seconds) due to New Zealand being in the > > wrong galaxy: Quite often, DNS TXT records appear to like taking >5 sec > > to respond. > > > > Now I see in SpamAssassin/Plugin/SPF.pm the following line: > > > > my $timeout = 5; > > > > Shouldn't that be using the DNS timeout set aside for all RBL queries? > > i.e. do the "do the DNS lookups ASAP and wait until the end to check the > > responses"? (i.e. more like 15 seconds)? > > Should it be configurable? Probably. It has to be a different timeout > setting than the rest though as it's a timeout on the call to > Mail::SPF::Query which could do multiple DNS lookups if necessary > (SpamAssassin itself doesn't handle the DNS queries for the SPF txt > records). > > Feel free to open a bug. Daryl's spot on, so this is definitely a good idea ;) - --j. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh CVS iD8DBQFD45RyMJF5cimLx9ARAseWAJ9TwRTInx0D9KAFmdvEN78ORL/4QwCfcWU/ qvLfsvxyDmsxmA/dG4oImys= =QZ7j -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
