In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, SM wrote: > Hi Tony, > At 15:01 06-07-2007, Tony Houghton wrote: > >I just use the one built in to my ADSL router; I don't know whether it > >caches. The one it forwards to at my ISP is probably bind. > > The DNS server on your ADSL router is built for residential > usage. If you are going to do a lot of DNS queries, for example with > SpamAssassin, it is better to run a DNS server on the same computer > as SpamAssassin.
SA used to kill a different router I used to have, but I don't think that's the problem here. I temporarily pointed /etc/resolv.conf to my ISP's servers and restarted spamd, which you'd expect to make at least some difference, but it didn't really. Besides, I can still freely browse the web etc while SA is stalled on these lookups. I think I'll just have to stop using SA on my own machine :-(. It's available at my ISP anyway; the only difference is I can't train it or fine-tune it (which I didn't really do anyway) there. -- TH * http://www.realh.co.uk